Transcribed to <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ</a><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Christoph Derndorfer<br> <<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br> > Dear all,<br> ><br> > even though I've tried to keep a close eye on the breathtaking<br> > development of SoaS over the past few weeks there are still some basic<br> > questions I'm wondering about, all related to how well SoaS runs on the<br> > various netbooks.<br> ><br> > * Have the resolution issues, which used to be a major issue w/ running<br> > Sugar on a non-XO, been solved?<br> <br> </div>While not every activity has been modified, most now accommodate<br> variable screen sizes. All of the activities at<br> <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">activities.sugarlabs.org</a> work at variable sizes and resolutions as far<br> as I know.<br> <br> > * What about font sizes?<br> <br> This is also fixed in Sucrose 0.84<br> <div class="im"><br> > * Do all the activities (incl. collaboration) work reliably on SoaS<br> > these days?<br> <br> </div>Collaboration on SoaS is as robust as collaboration anywhere. (There<br> is a Google Summer of Code project that will be addressing one general<br> issue of collaboration robustness--this will be relevant to SoaS and<br> non-SoaS deployments.)<br> <br> There are some NetworkManager issues that need to be worked out in<br> general regarding Sugar on non-OLPC kernels, but this impacts<br> connectivity, not collaboration.<br> <div class="im"><br> <br> > * Does SoaS allow for power-management to kick in on netbooks?<br> <br> </div>Yes, but currently not the special OLPC XO features.<br> <div class="im"><br> > * What exactly are the networking and audio issues that Walter described<br> > in yesterday's Sugar-Digest?<br> <br> </div>AFAIK, the audio problems are fixed in the new Beta.<br> <br> We have found some issues with connectivity with a small number of<br> machines--this seems to be a Fedora issue, not a Sugar issue, and is<br> being worked on upstream.<br> <div class="im"><br> ><br> > What I'm basically trying to find out is whether *today* running SoaS on<br> > a netbook is a *real* alternative to XOs with build 767 when it comes to<br> > classroom settings?<br> <br> </div>For the OLPC XO hardware, we are targeting F12 as the timeframe for<br> the switch. In the meantime, on that hardware, we recommend the 80X<br> series of builds from OLPC. But by all means, please test SoaS on<br> your XO hardware (you'll need a developer key) and give us feedback.<br> On all other hardware, SoaS, while just in Beta, is looking really<br> great!!<br> <div class="im"><br> ><br> > Thanks,<br> > Christoph<br> ><br> > --<br> > Christoph Derndorfer<br> > co-editor, olpcnews<br> > url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a><br> > e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div><font color="#888888">--<br> Walter Bender<br> Sugar Labs<br> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>