<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Peter Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thank you Martin. I think that is spot on!<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> We've been a distro distributor for months - from the before the<br>
>> beta-1 Sugar on a Stick announcement.<br>
><br>
> Who's we? <a href="http://sugaronastick.com" target="_blank">sugaronastick.com</a>? Sugar Labs members? Let's be clear:<br>
> Sugar Labs does not have the staff to compete with Canonical or Fedora<br>
> as a distro vendor. So please help me understand to what "distro<br>
> distributor" tasks you think the DP should propose to SLOB.<br>
<br>
</div>It would be interesting to see how many people are using SoaS over<br>
something like the installable options from the distros such as the<br>
sugar desktop group option in Fedora. This obv wouldn't include the<br>
XO-1s. Of the 5 devices I have that have sugar installed. 2 are the<br>
802 XO release, and 3 are Fedora (although one of those will go to<br>
SoaS for some testing eventually).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I use SoaS for activity development and jhbuild for Sugar development. I have used SoaS ever since OLPC stopped making their distribution. I recommend SoaS VMs to people who ask me about the activity team. I see it as smaller, cleaner and more stable than a big distro with Sugar tacked on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, why are we talking about the effort to maintain a distro? SoaS obviously benefits from all of Fedora's work - just look how quickly it's moved from f10 to f11 to f12. It's just a tweaked .ks file and a brand name.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">>> And, we are marketing it with success (cf. worldwide tech press<br>
>> coverage, the BBC, etc).<br>
><br>
> How many people are using it? Satisfied with SoaS as a distro?<br>
> What's the target deployment size, and what SL support will be<br>
> required?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see emails from the GPA deployment going by all the time. Are there any deployments using Sugar on a standard distro? Are there often mainstream media articles announcing "package foo available in latest fedora"?</div>
<div><br></div><div>To me, SoaS has always been the answer to the question "how do I run Sugar now that OLPC isn't providing OS builds?". It works well, it's actively developed, it brings in good press, so why are people questioning its value?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Wade</div></div>