[IAEP] Windows is Coming

[Walter Bender]

Also, FWIW, for the first time, Chromebooks are now outselling Macs.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures

(While you can boot GNU/Linux on many Chromebooks, I don't think this is a
likely scenario for most schools.)

-walter

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> According to the news Google is making Android apps available on some
> Chromebooks (possibly including Sugarizer and GCompris).
>
> Windows 10 is making Ubuntu programs available by the command line - which
> could be shortcuts.
>
> Tony
>
> On 05/20/2016 06:16 AM, iaep-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 11:26:28 +0800
>> From: Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
>> To: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
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>> 2016-05-19 20:40 GMT+08:00 Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>:
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>> Hi, Laura
>>>
>>> Hi Tony!
>>>
>>
>> Sorry about my confusing  message with the digest title.
>>>
>>>
>>> No problem :D
>>
>>
>> I tried the Sugar network several years ago but decided that it was not
>>> usable because it is dependent on internet access. Is that
>>> still the case?
>>>
>>> I'll rescue the text from the original thread:
>>>
>> "The node service runs locally on each machine. Thus, the node would have
>> to be included in the Sugar distribution. The node offers an API for
>> accessing/interaction with Sugar Network resources."
>>
>> Basically this means that each machine could become a server for a local
>> Sugar Network node. Still, some work would have to be done to achieve
>> synchronization with the main node.
>>
>> That said, the last production version was made for Sugar 0.94. There
>> would
>> be important work to be done if you want it to run with a newer version.
>>
>> Regards and blessings,
>>
>> laura V
>>
>>
>> Tony
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