[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[David Van Assche]

You can easily make gdm the session manager from which to choose sugar
or gnome, and thereby give them access to gimp, inkscape and whatever
other apps...

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> 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
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