[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 00:02, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonas,
>
> As an Activity developer I want to have my stuff run well for as many
> children as possible.  As an XO owner I want my XO set up as much as
> possible like the XOs out in the field, so I can be sure that children
> with XOs have the best experience possible.  .82 has some serious
> deficiencies: no saving of custom metadata across reboots (so the Read
> Activity is unable to remember what page you left off on), no support
> for epub texts and poor support for DJVU texts, etc.  So I definitely
> want to upgrade, but not to get to a place where my Activity users
> cannot easily follow.
>
> I did try SoaS on my XO awhile back.  Sound didn't work at that time.
> I didn't bother to report it as a bug because I figured that the XO is
> a known quantity and anyone testing SoaS on the XO will have exactly
> the same problems I have, for the same reasons.
>
> So the real answer to your question is, how will the other kids
> upgrade and when will they be able to do it?

I would also like to know that, who we could ask to?

Regards,

Tomeu

> James Simmons
>
>> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:03:17 +0200
>> From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SLOBs Position on SoaS
>> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Message-ID: <20090916150317.GE23106 at jones.dk>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:31:19AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>>I have a similar question.  What I want to know is, when I am finally
>>>able to upgrade my XO from .82 to something better, will I use SoaS to
>>>do it?  Or will I be able to do upgrades over the network as I have
>>>done in the past?
>>
>> I believe the answer depends on your definition of "something better".
>>
>> ".82" most probably means a release of the distribution created and
>> still maintained by the OLPC project, targeted specifically for the XO
>> laptops.
>>
>> The "better" thing might be the official successor to that release, done
>> by same organisation.
>>
>> The "better" thing might be to abandon that distribution and switch to
>> some alternative.  The "better" alternative might be SoaS, it might be
>> Debian, it might be Ubuntu, it might be...
>>
>>
>> Did you already decide that SoaS is your preferred successor, and all
>> you ask is _when_ SoaS will be stable enough for you (perhaps you then
>> need to clarify what parts you depend on and what you can let go of)?
>>
>> Or do you ask the SoaS developers if their system is "better" than those
>> of their competitors (a somewhat rhetorical question, I believe)?
>>
>> Or did you ask _all_ distributors of Sugar which is considered the
>> "better" alternative to the dated ".82" provided by OLPC?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>  - Jonas
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