[Marketing] [IAEP] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> David and me briefly discussed the use of iTALC on Sugar last week as I
> was interested in giving it a quick shot to see how it works.
> Unfortunately the Web site doesn't offer direct downloads for Fedora
> (though it does for Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse and Gentoo -
> http://italc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Download) and a quick
> search only turned up RPMs for Fedora 10.

Review Request for Fedora is here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459065

Axel Thimm has thrown the F10 RPMs in his repo. For F11 & F12, I've 
tried doing scratch builds in Koji, but those failed so far. However, it 
would be pretty cool to get it officially in Fedora.

--Sebastian

> Please also note that according to the Web site the last update happened
> in May of 2008 so it looks like the project is dormant if not dead.
>
> One thing I was also wondering about is how well some of the
> functionalities would work on a wireless network as on first sight many
> of them look quite bandwidth intensive.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Christoph
>
> Caroline Meeks schrieb:
>> italic looks very interesting!  Can it be Sugarized?  how does it
>> relate/compare to Show'n'Tell or any other solutions we have in the
>> pipeline to this type need.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:08 AM, David Van Assche<dvanassche at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dvanassche at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>>
>>      This actually looks like a commercial ripoff of iTalc, an opensource
>>      app that does exactly what synchronous Eyes does:
>>      http://italc.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>
>>      On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
>>      <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at
>>      <mailto:e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>>  wrote:
>>
>>          Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting article!
>>
>>          Some of the features provided by that "SMART Classroom Suite"
>>          (http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SynchronEyes+Classroom+Management+Software/)
>>          would also be very useful additions for Sugar...
>>
>>          Cheers,
>>          Christoph
>>
>>          Sean DALY schrieb:
>>           >
>>          http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2009/08/classmate_pc_as_a_one-to-one_l.php
>>           >
>>           >  * touchscreen for kids
>>           >  * customized Easybits desktop ("Inspirus", removes
>>          "distractions")
>>           >  * Anmeg Parent Carefree, "shuts down" Classmate if rules
>>          transgressed
>>           >  * theft deterrent
>>           >  * system snapshot manager
>>           >  * ArtRage drawing tool
>>           >  * EverNote for note-taking
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