[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick on XOs for XO Lending Libraries?

[Caroline Meeks]

Sdz and others...
We should put having a Stick work on both XOs and nonXOs on a roadmap,
feature wish list somewhere please.  I have to admit I'm getting pretty lost
about where to put this sort of thing, especially since it crosses so many
boundaries.

A good example of where it would be useful is the UK deployment.  They are
getting about 40 XOs and they already have a computer lab of PCs.

Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ton van Overbeek<tvoverbeek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Caroline
> > Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm curious if we are to the point technically where an XO lending
> library
> >> could create a stick for an XO borrower and lend them the XO.  The
> borrower
> >> could then use Sugar and he XO on the stick. If they liked using Sugar
> they
> >> could keep the stick with all their work and continue using it on their
> home
> >> computer after they returned the XO.
> >> Seems
> >>
> like a cool idea, but I haven't been following the technical issues around SoaS on the XO enough to know if its technically feasible?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Caroline
> >>
> >
> > Would be nice, if it works.
> >
> > I have not tried it with the recent releases of SoaS (>= Strawberry),
> > but pre Strawberry it did not work.
> > The main problem is that the underlying live-cd code assumes it is
> > always running on the same computer.
> > On first boot it does some specific adaptations for the XO-1 (i.e.
> > change xorg.conf) which make it not work
> > when booted later on a non-XO.
> > Same thing the other way around, when first booted on a 'normal' pc it
> > will not work on the XO-1.
> > Again, all this was my experience with pre Strawberry versions of SoaS.
> > If this is working now, then please correct me.
> >
> > Anyway, if it is not fixed yet, then this is one of the things SoaS
> > has to address sooner than later
> > in order to live up to all the publicity that you can take your work
> > with you and boot it on any
> > (Intel) computer.
> >
> > Hope I am being too pessimistic ....
>
> I would use the term realistic rather than pessimistic to describe your
> post....
>
> With that said, many of the issues that you refer to are underlying
> distro issues rather SoaS or Sugar Issues.  I would encourage you to
> file bug reports with your favourite disto so their developers are
> aware of these problems.
>
> FWIW, SoaS is taking 'live CD' images _far_ past their originally
> envisioned purposes.  The distros are seeing the value in running
> their distro straight from a usb stick.  Thus, the development rate at
> the os level is starting to pick up dramatically.
>
> david
>
> > Ton van Overbeek
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