[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Simon Schampijer schrieb:
> David Van Assche wrote:
>> What's wrong with offering kde, sugar, or gnome from the login manager
>> (whatever that might be... that could be made as simple or complicated
>> as one wanted.) Kde has an amazingly powerful group of edu apps, as
>> does gnome, as does Sugar... all for different age groups... so it
>> might make sense to make something all encompassing that is useful for
>> all educational groups...
>>
>> David
> 
> If that is the desire from whoever is using those Sticks - off he goes. 
> Caroline wants to offer GNOME as well - great. Those images are easily 
> customizable - so as marco said there could be different versions.

I just created a very first draft of a slimmed-down version including 
Gnome and Sugar on the same spin. Though, I didn't get to testing it 
yet. You can just have a look at the GIT repo here: [1]

The soas-*.ks files are the ones which should also work on other 
hardware than the XO.

--Sebastian

[1] http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/fedora-xo;a=tree

> Subnote: There is a size limit as well to some sticks - for example 1 GB 
> sticks are quite common - not sure if you can fit all the desktops on 
> that and offer space for the user he can write to as well.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Simon