[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

[Manusheel Gupta]

Tomeu,

Thank you for the pointer.

Yes, we have tried running SocialCalc on Sugar with SoaS as the Sugar
distribution. Works pretty well. We'll look into the other distributions as
recommended.

Regards,

Manu



On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 19:45, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Tomeu,
> >
> > My apologies for the typo.
> >
> > I meant Live CD for running Sugar on Windows. We downloaded it from
> > ftp://www.rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090722.iso .
>
> I confess not having tried it out, but AFAIK that's a normal linux
> live image. So you don't run windows when you boot that .iso, just
> linux.
>
> Have you tried other linux live images containing Sugar? There's SoaS,
> Trisquel, OpenSUSE, etc. See in the wiki for links and instructions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Manu
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:59, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:
> >> > Dear all,
> >> >
> >> > Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc
> >> > activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc
> works
> >> > very well on the native installation of Sugar. Please suggest.
> >>
> >> Hi Manu,
> >>
> >> can you clarify what do you mean by a Live CD for Windows?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Tomeu
> >>
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Manu
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Manu,
> >> >
> >> > I successfully installed Social Calc using the Sugar Live CD.  The
> only
> >> > issue was that SocialCalc didn't show up in my activity list until I
> >> > restarted Sugar.
> >> > The response of Sugar is a bit sluggish (which also affects
> SocialCalc).
> >> >  It's easier to learn a new system when the system's feedback to
> actions
> >> > is
> >> > fast and time-consistent.  I would guess that this is not a problem
> with
> >> > a
> >> > native installation.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > _______________________________________________
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Farning
> >
> >
>
>
>
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