[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

Sean DALY sdaly.be at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 03:58:22 EDT 2011


PPC on Mac is also, unfortunately, a platform with no future, the last
machine having been manufactured in 2005. It's a tribute to Apple's
hardware quality that many are still around (I have G3s, G4s and G5s
still going strong, including one of the latter duals maxed out with 8
Gb of RAM and 6 Tb of onboard disk) but the most recent MacOS (10.6)
does not run on them, nor does any version of VirtualBox.

Sean


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Caryl,
> Running Sugar in any machine is not free, we must invest many,many,  hours
> of work, and the complexity of the plataform is increased.
> We need select out targets, we don't have infinite resources.
> Regards,
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't run Android on anything since I took my Android phone back to
>> Verizon after trying and not liking it for a few days a couple of years ago.
>>  I am talking about running Sugar using whatever method can be devised. The
>> easier the better!
>> I have run Strawberry and Blueberry in a Virtual Box on my MacBook, but
>> not without problems.  I haven't tried the VB on the PowerBook I gave my
>> husband after replacing the defunct hard drive and getting a new MacBook (no
>> longer new ;-( . I have been able to run EToys to Go on both of them as well
>> as an eeePC I bought so I could experiment with these things.  Etoys project
>> files transfer seamlessly between all three of these machines.  My dream
>> situation would be to have Sugar work the same way.
>> Caryl
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:23:02 -0400
>> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets
>> > From: cscott at laptop.org
>> > To: martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>> > CC: cbigenho at hotmail.com; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org;
>> > sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org; pbrobinson at gmail.com
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Martin Langhoff
>> > <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> PCs and Linux machines yes. But... there still lots of issues with
>> > >> Macs and
>> > >> so far it does not work with the older G4 Power PC Macs (EToys to go
>> > >> does!).
>> > >
>> > > Does Android run on your G4 PPC Mac?? Or is this all random talk?
>> >
>> > This week's work (Sugar-on-Chrome) provides a much better story for
>> > desktop compatibility.
>> > --scott
>>
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