<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I agree that it can be hard to find the present version of soas One reason v8 is not prominently displayed is that anaconda "liveinst" does not work for installation to a HD or USB See [4] for a work-around until this is fixed I am also listing the links for sweets-distribution-sugar 0.94 Tom Gilliard satellit here are some links: [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a> scroll down wiki page to f18 where link is listed [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/%CA%BB%C5%8Chelo_%CA%BBai">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/%CA%BB%C5%8Chelo_%CA%BBai</a> Sugar on a Stick v8 ʻŌhelo ʻai has never been updated on the left sidebar of the wiki [3]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Virtual_machines#Sugar_on_a_Stick_v8_.CA.BB.C5.8Chelo_.CA.BBai">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Virtual_machines#Sugar_on_a_Stick_v8_.CA.BB.C5.8Chelo_.CA.BBai</a> Importable VirtualBox appliance [4]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_18#Tutorial:_Make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_18#Tutorial:_Make_a_SoaS.img_file_for_repeated_installs</a> Note: The following are .img files are provided to workaround the bug that SoaS 8 fails to run a non-Live install to a hard disk or USB drive [5]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Subpages">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Subpages</a> has listings for older versions [6] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/">http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/</a> Archive of oldest soas.iso files <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution/Manual_Installation">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution/Manual_Installation</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2013#Finish_work_on_Ubuntu_Sugar">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2013#Finish_work_on_Ubuntu_Sugar</a> sweets-distribution: sugar 0.94 On 03/22/2013 02:09 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CADmpiaa3w5VYctXzaDrD8wtQEzJc=gYmyLgjGgcxKk59D-WxzQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, March 22, 2013 12:19 pm, Peter Robinson wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Martin Abente <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com"><martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com"><pbrobinson@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Peter Robinson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com"><pbrobinson@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi All, I'm trying to get a little bit more organised for this cycle than I have been over the last couple. The plans for SoaS v9 are going to be somewhat simple. We're going to stick with the 0.98.x release of Sugar and focusing on polish. </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Where can we find these plans? I see that the SoaS pages on the Sugar Labs Wiki are seriously out of date, referring to Version 7 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Soas">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Soas</a> Version 4 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_QA">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_QA</a> Release 1 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Running_Linux_Applications_Under_Sugar">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Running_Linux_Applications_Under_Sugar</a> No version number given, but dated 2010 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Testing">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Testing</a> V5 for MacBook, Version 7 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads</a> The Fedora Spins page doesn't say what version of SoaS it is offering at all. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/">http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/</a> Also, the Wiki fails to document release 0.98. It is out, according to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.98/Roadmap">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.98/Roadmap</a> But it is not listed for any platform at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#Do_you_use_GNU.2FLinux.3F">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads#Do_you_use_GNU.2FLinux.3F</a> Separately from that, the Sweets repository for Ubuntu doesn't seem to exist. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution/Manual_Installation">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution/Manual_Installation</a> Nor does the Ubuntu Sugar Team page. I would take that up with the Ubuntu Sugar Team if I could find it. ^_^ Sugar on Ubuntu is severely broken. Most activities fail to start. None of it should have been released in that state. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Packaging">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Packaging</a> lists this page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam</a> which the Wiki says does not and has never existed. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I would like to see more people testing and using it during the dev cycle so I don't get the "My Activity is broken" post release or five minutes before release when we're generating final images and pushing them out to the Fedora mirrors. </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I would be delighted to help. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I would also like to remove sugar-presence-service but that would </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">mean </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">either dropping eToys or the developers stepping up to actually fix the dependency that they've only been promising to do for 2 or so years. </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Who in particular? </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Is there anything in particular that people would like to contribute during this cycle? Anything I can help someone achieve? Does anyone want to dig into the documentation on the web site to improve the process? </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> If I had the information, I would be glad to add it to the Wiki on the appropriate pages. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'd also love marketing to get involved since we've not had any publicity for a number of releases and after all Walter was telling </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">me </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">some time back that it's the biggest single driver in the wiki. Finally there's a Test Compose for the alpha available in the following link. I've used it briefly in a VM and it boots and seems </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">to </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">mostly work. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC1/Live/">http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC1/Live/</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I forget to mention for this cycle we'll also produce SoaS images to run on a number of ARM platforms. The first test of these should arrive around F-19 Beta. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> +1 for Raspberry-Pi :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It won't be for Raspberry Pi. The armv5tel was dropped for Fedora 19. It will be supportable but that's through a different effort that I've not got the time to be involved with. It will worth with around 20 odd ARM devices including a new soon to be announced device that will cost almost the same as a RPi and be a lot more powerful. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Can we get a Wiki page listing them, or an external link, and can we talk about testing SoaS on them _all_? If I could get funded to buy one of each and set up a modest test station with proper storage, power, and work area and all relevant ARM SoaS versions actually on sticks, I might volunteer to do that in between writing OERs and recruiting others to do so. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Peter </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>