[Sugar-devel] Ubuntu compatibility test stick

[Sean DALY]

Bulletproof boot will assure the success of Sugar on a Stick beyond
geeks and even geeky teachers. The installation barrier is what holds
back widespread GNU/Linux installs over another OS; SoaS overcomes
that.

We don't have a hardware compatibility matrix yet, but we should, and
ideally the data could come from Sugar boot attempt logs. I have half
a dozen netbooks I will video booting and tag them "Sugar boots!" but
a boot time generated log would be even better.

I wondered about this in February
(http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-February/011804.html)
but visibly, a major part of the problem is running down who could
things that could go wrong - distro side, networking configuration,
Activities.

It may well be that technical problem X implies filing a "bug ticket",
but teachers won't bother doing that if they are evaluating SoaS.
They'll just shrug and think it's not ready. if they check back a few
months later and still can't get it to work, they'll just mention to
their colleagues how unreliable it is.

An automatically generated log of what works/doesn't which phones home
to us would yield precious data about what's going wrong. I understand
this would be quite difficult to code though. And of course, with no
network, no phoning - although an access through the Sugar Control
Panel could at least make copy/paste into a mail to
feedback at sugarlabs.org possible.

Sean


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just seen mentioned in the Ubuntu Weekly News: Ubuntu had a test stick at
> the Atlanta Linux Fest that tried out the usual problematic features (WiFi,
> sound, etc.) with the user answering whether it worked or not [1]. So the
> user could determine whether Ubuntu should work properly. All test results
> were collected by Canonical.
> Something like this for SoaS would be really great.
>
>
> [1] http://www.workswithu.com/2009/09/23/will-ubuntu-910-work-on-your-pc/
>
> CU Sascha
>
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