[Sugar-devel] Sugar on LTSP

[Walter Bender]

Sugar is compatible with LTSP systems. The folks at Resera have done
good work in this space. However, the Ubuntu packaging of Sugar 0.84
is a bit behind the great work being done by the Debian community.

-walter

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had a conversation with our tech folks on campus yesterday, and
> Sugar via LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/) came up. The original discussion
> was about LTSP and thin and fat clients, but this group is in the
> College of Education, so the conversation drifted towards Sugar. We've
>  talked about this before, but I'll poke the embers again. Is Sugar
> usable via LTSP? Espcially the collaborative part via ejabberd?
>
> We plan on having a Jaunty-based showcase running in three weeks or
> so. If Sugar is usable in that environment, we'll definitely push for
> it in this lab. The lab is used by faculty and students from early
> childhood ed. and other departments inb CoE. They'd love to bring in
> teachers and children from local schools to showcase it.
>
> I'm cc'ing David Van Assche in case he's not on this list (highly
> doubtful, though). I am currently using his fatclient script
> (http://www.nubae.com/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid)
> on Intrepid+GNOME.
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
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