[IAEP] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi might have an interesting
>> marketing effect but the result would be truly terrible as it would be
>> essentially unusable and have a terrible experience.
>
>
> Can you elaborate on why you think it would be a terrible experience on the
> Raspberry Pi? I never tested it there, I was just hoping it could be a nice
> target...

It's generally not particularly fast and has a number of HW problems,
as a "look at how cool we are" I wouldn't be chosing the RPi to run
sugar on Android, even on Linux the experience isn't great.

>> There are a
>> number of other ARM devices that sugar runs beautifully on though.
>
>
> It would also be interesting to know more about these devices. With OLPC
> going the Android way, I wish there was at least one popular enough device
> on which we could provide a really good experience (with our scarce
> resources).

Well Fedora produces SoaS on ARM images that will run on any of the
ARM platforms Fedora supports. I would be looking at BeagleBone Black
[1] (improvements still needed, should be much better soon), Wandboard
[2], Utilite [3] (little brother to the TrimSlice) or the CuBox-i [4].
The last of which has the cheapest model at $45 in a case and will be
much faster, we should have OOTB graphics for the last 3 devices (all
based on the i.MX6) in Fedora 21 (maybe later in the F-20 cycle) and
the experience will be much better for little to no price increase
over the RPi.

[1] http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
[2] http://www.wandboard.org/
[3] http://utilite-computer.com/
[4] http://cubox-i.com/table/