[IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:10:27AM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On the other hand, if you want up-to-date Sugar in a simple way, then 
>> I have no recommendation for you: I suspect that most if not all of 
>> the fast-moving distros like SoaS and Ubuntu care less about wide 
>> support, so might not handle your hardware properly.
>
>SoaS boots on the XO, which is also "not a i686". The kernel rpm name
>says "i586" IIRC. I think it has a reasonable chance of working on
>C3s.
>
>Of course, it's also a lot of fun to do it on Debian with Jonas'
>packages ;-) -- just wanted to mention that SoaS isn't i685-only.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Seriously my unofficial ahead-of-Debian packages might or might not be 
fun, depending on the use case: They still do not provide a full core 
set of Sugar packages - particularly they lack support for Read and 
Write, which are considered important capabilities in some learning 
environments :-/


  - Jonas

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