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

[Lucian Branescu]

s/Sugar/Sugar on a Stick/

Still, it should just show up as Linux (USB).

2009/5/20 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
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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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