<div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2010 09:00, Tabitha Roder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tabitha@tabitha.net.nz">tabitha@tabitha.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">If we support VIrtualBox we<br>
should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going<br>
to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a<br>
single image.<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
<div><div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div></div>I am a teacher of sorts and have been into loads of education institutes from pre school through to tertiary. Apple is everywhere so we have to solve this problem. <br>
</blockquote><div><br>Apple designs vertically integrated systems. If schools & teachers decide to adopt this philosophy, they take the risk that they can't use external stuff. I don't know if Sugar Labs have the capacity to remedy this. I think that Sugar Labs should focus on making quality software, and push responsibility for adoption downstream to distributions and companies/orgs that want to promote Sugar's adoption.<br>
<br>I'm sorry for my lack of sympathy, but I don't see Sugar running natively on a Mac platform as a priority for Sugar Labs. It's a priority, but we have many priorities and few resources.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I use Virtualbox and have a geek master to turn to for help when I need it. I have not heard of those other virtual machine things and all the teachers I know that have tried a virtual machine have done so with Virtualbox or something called bootcamp (which might not even be a virtual machine, who knows?) </blockquote>
<div><br>You're right there, Boot Camp[1] is not virtualisation. It is more like an installer to make things easier for people to install a second operating system. It assists people with repartitioning their hard drives and so forth.<br>
<br>I think that Boot Camp is a good route to investigate if someone has the energy. Perhaps some intrepid Mac users could adapt current tutorials[3] for Sugar.<br><br>Tim<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/">http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp</a><br>[2] <a href="http://www.helium.com/items/421906-how-to-install-linux-on-an-intel-mac-with-boot-camp">http://www.helium.com/items/421906-how-to-install-linux-on-an-intel-mac-with-boot-camp</a><br>
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