[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Simon Schampijer]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Ok, did not think about yum update.
>>
>> Did not know GNOME was a requirement, wonder if this is a benefit to have
>> though. I mean it is Sugar on a stick in the end. If it helps to make mac
>> users get to know gnome or sugar i guess that is ok.
> 
> Caroline wants to get Soas to high school students so that they can
> play with and help us out with testing etc. At the same time they
> would like to be able to run normal linux applications like the gimp.
> That was more or less the rationale, but I'm ccing Caroline which can
> explain better. (Another way to cover that use case could be to have
> them yum install GNOME or build customized images with it).
> 
> Marco
> 

As I said - might be a good way to get them try out other apps besides 
Sugar - see that as a benefit. We could build customized images as well 
- that is true.

Thanks,
    Simon