[Marketing] [IAEP] personal marketing (bottum up approach)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:22, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Congrats, Marten!
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:10, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images,
>> ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image,
>> but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this
>> would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being
>> hosted downloaded from [bernie, caroline?]):
>
> AFAIK this won't work with the current images because we are using
> squashfs and it's not working well with rsync and binary deltas.
>
> What's using OpenSUSE instead of squashfs?

More info about why rsync'ing soas images won't save bandwidth:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-March/msg00004.html

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> First check the latest image at:
>>
>> (This definetly works with openSUSE where sugar is completely
>> integrated, even with an icon on the desktop that takes you straight
>> into sugar from the desktop. The address for either SugarSuse or
>> openSUSE-edu is here:
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/ )
>>
>> The Soas images (snapshots, ie latests sugar) are here as far as I can
>> tell: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/
>>
>> Copy old image with exactly same name as new image available:
>>
>> cp oldimage.iso exact-name-new-image-is.iso
>>
>> Run rsync again to patch it:
>>
>> rsync -avP rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/opensuse/repositories/Education/images/iso/exact-name-new-image-is.iso
>> .
>>
>> Dot at the end with space before it is part of the command.
>>
>> This will download only the bytes that have changed, which in some
>> cases is just few MBs, saving few GBs of download.
>>
>> Obviously p2p is another good solution to get initial images going if
>> a couple of people choose to upload to linuxtracker.org or
>> something...
>>
>> kind Regards,
>> David (Nubae) Van Assche
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> In the last 24 hours I talked to 12 persons about Sugar.
>>>
>>> - 6 persons have downloaded sugar and said to give feedback on Sugar
>>>
>>> - I have send a request for testing to i-network at dgroups.org.
>>> This is one the main mailinglistings in Africa.
>>>
>>> My findings so far:
>>> 1. Asking people to help works. I ask can you help me. Can you download
>>> an iso, burn it to cd, boot it, and give you opinion an email?
>>> This is very effective in shifting from "talking about" to "doing".
>>>
>>> 2. The download seems to be slow.
>>>
>>> Possible sollution, shall I ask for bandwith to mirror the iso image?
>>> Can someone make familiar with an optimal solution
>>> (syncing/redirecting).
>>>
>>> kind regards,
>>> Marten
>>>
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