[Sugar-devel] SoaS-for-XO-1 image

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Thanks a lot for the clarifications Martin, much appreciated.

Christoph

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:06:05PM +0545, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> > Apologies if this is a stupid question but what are the differences and
> > advantages/disadvantages of a SoaS-on-XO-1 install versus the F11-on-XO-1
> > approach that some are taking?
>
> They have very similar goals; the main differences in goals,
> AFAICS, are:
>
> 1) release schedule (SoaS-linked vs. OLPC-linked);
>
> 2) target audience (SoaS-users vs. OLPC XO-1 build users);
>
> 3) the supported desktop experiences (Sugar alone vs. Sugar and
> GNOME)
>
> But I'm publishing my images mainly because I can.  I happen to be
> creating them for my own (XO-1) use, and trying to make them useful to
> the SoaS people and (hopefully) the F11-on-XO-1 people (in the
> future).
>
> > I'm quite confused about this at the moment as on first sight it seems
> like
> > both efforts are trying to do exactly the same thing (making the latest
> > Sugar run on an XO-1)...
>
> They are, almost.  I'm also a commiter to fedora-xo (though I haven't
> had time to do any SoaS or F11-on-XO-1 work lately) and an avid
> follower of Daniel Drake, Stephen Parrish, and others' work therein.
> So I hope we're not really duplicating much work, though we're
> duplicating some git repos and bits-on-disk :).
>
> > Thanks,
> > Christoph
>
> Martin
>



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