[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote:
>And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even 
>desirable?
>
>My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the 
>SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted.

Sugar is *not* a Linux distribution!

OLPC is/provides a Linux distribution, in that it contains the classic 
GNU/Linux base (Linux kernel + some GNU userspace tools) and the Sugar 
desktop environment on top of that.

SoaS is a Linux distribution too.

MacOS X is a non-Linux distribution, consisting of the Darwin base with 
Aqua on top.

Debian is a distribution providing (in testing and unstable at least) a 
choice of multiple bases (Linux, kFreeBSD, Hurd) and multiple desktops 
(GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, GNUstep and a half-baked Sugar).

Sugar itself is distributed (as is most free software), but is not an 
operating system + some userspace.


I would suspect that rEFIt not recognize X11 desktops, and not userspace 
parts - only kernels.

But even if rEFIt recognizes desktops, how to then resolve which is the 
_main_ desktop, and if the main desktop is the preferred environment 
over e.g. the terminal or some virtual (X11-based or not) environment.


Hope that clarifies (and feel free to disagree with my judgements!).

  - Jonas

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