<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body> <p>On 13.06.2012 17:30, Frederick Grose wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Peter Robinson <span><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /> <blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"> <div class="im">On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote:<br /> > On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote:<br /> ><br /> >> Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator for jhs and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much more so than buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO.<br /> ><br /> > Sugar can be installed on any PC, not just Classmates or XOs.<br /> ><br /> >> It's not about price or energy requirements here, its about good education for kids.</div> You've always been able to plug SoaS into x86 Macs and have it work<br /> ...<br />is quite conceivable once the Sugar port to GTK3 is<br /> complete, of course like everything it needs someone to step up and do<br /> the work.<br /><span class="HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"><br /> Peter</span></span></blockquote> <div>In the spirit of exploring interesting concepts that might stimulate new development, might someone explain the obstacles that prevent Sugar from running on an iPad, as well, discuss potential approaches to overcome those obstacles.</div> <div>For example, Etoys, an independent but significant component in Sugar, can be run on an iPad since June 2010,</div> <div><a href="http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2010/06/squeak-etoys-on-ipad.html">http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2010/06/squeak-etoys-on-ipad.html</a></div> <div><a href="http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/ipad/">http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/ipad/</a></div> <div>Also with time, the current crop of iPads will become secondary devices as newer tablets are released. Folks will then be more willing to void warranties and experiment with the operating systems.</div> <div> --Fred</div> </div> </blockquote> <p>I have been dreaming of buying a £100 tablet, for installing Sugar, like this in local Maplin store,</p> <p>http://www.maplin.co.uk/arnova-8-g3-8in-touch-tablet-android-4.0-630087</p> <p>It has: ARM A8 Cortex™ 1GHz processor, capacitive multi-touch screen, 1GB RAM, front camera, Android 4.0, so am thinking it would be a fine candidate for Fedora-arm / Sugar. I have not seen it discussed, has it been done already?</p> <p>Iain</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div> </div> </body></html>