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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 20:13, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so if performance is better on SoaS than in XO-LiveCD, then we
have a clue about where to investigate. Do you have a big interest in
using XO-LiveCD ?

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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>>
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