[SoaS] Recommendations for running Sugar on standard hardware (non-XOs)?

[Thomas Gilliard]

On 4/8/2014 9:43 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hey Samy,
>
> thanks a lot for the update.
>
> (1) I think some people already did run Sugar on a Raspberry Pi a 
> while ago. There should be a page somewhere on w.s.o about it.
Here is reference:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/ARM_RPi

Located inside this page on the RPi:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#Raspberry_Pi_.2F_RPi

Tom Gilliard
satellit
> (2) That sounds like an interesting setup as well!
> (3) Tony (in CC) is interested in this as are other people. e.g. 
> during the Malaysia summit back in November someone from Hong Kong 
> showed Sugar running on a similarly low-cost tablet 
> (https://www.flickr.com/photos/christophd/11212550176/in/set-72157637721745034).
>
> Hope to see you at Sugar Camp this weekend! :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:45 AM, samy (free) <s.boutayeb at free.fr 
> <mailto:s.boutayeb at free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Christoph,
>
>     I planned to experiment (still in progress) on an arm platform:
>
>     1/ Raspberry Pi with Pidora
>     Fedora working but slow
>
>     2/ Cubietruck with Fedora 20
>     Fedora installed following [1] and working. After experimenting disk
>     space problems on the micro SD-Card, by attempting to install the
>     sugar
>     packages, I didn't yet manage to move further, moving the
>     filesystem (or
>     part of it) from the sd-card to the 2,5" HD, that I added to the
>     configuration.
>
>     3/ Allwinner (A23) tablet with Fedora 20, with 1024x600 resolution
>     According to [2], there is an interesting and affordable platform in
>     tablet form factor, theorically suitable for an Fedora
>     installation. The
>     sales dept quoted USD80.00 for 1 piece (USD48.00 + 32 for DHL) and
>     USD311.00 for 5 pieces (USD48.00 + 71.00 for DHL)
>
>     [1] http://fedorapeople.org/~lkundrak/a10-images/README
>     <http://fedorapeople.org/%7Elkundrak/a10-images/README>
>     [2]
>     http://armdevices.net/2014/04/03/31-50-allwinner-a23-tablet-from-zxs/
>
>     Regards
>
>     Samy
>
>     Le lundi 07 avril 2014 à 20:36 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer a écrit :
>     > Hey everyone,
>     >
>     >
>     > a guy I know wants to set up a couple of older laptops with
>     Sugar in a
>     > sort of "learning lab" in Germany and asked me what the best
>     route for
>     > doing that was. Since I haven't dabbled in that area in quite a
>     while
>     > I'm not sure what the best recommendations are these days:
>     >
>     >
>     > * using the SoaS version from late December?
>     > * installing Fedora 20 and running Sugar on top of that?
>     > * something entirely different?
>     >
>     >
>     > Any comments, suggestions, links, etc. would be much appreciated.
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Christoph
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > Christoph Derndorfer
>     >
>     >
>     > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at <http://www.olpc.at>]
>     > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com <http://www.olpcnews.com>]
>     > co-founder, TechnikBasteln® [www.technikbasteln.net
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>     >
>     >
>     > e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu <mailto:christoph at derndorfer.eu>
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> Christoph Derndorfer
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