[Sugar-devel] Sugar on Raspberry Pi

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Alexandro Colorado <jza at oooes.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
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>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Alexandro Colorado <jza at oooes.org> wrote:
>> > Hi I want to know the status of a RaspberryPi distribution like Raspbian
>> > which can handle Sugar's environment. Something like Sugar on a Pi.
>> >
>> > I could find this testing reports talking about Sweets
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>> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/Sweets_on_Raspberry_pi_armhf_raspbian
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>> > The reports seems to say is stable but slow. I wonder if there has been
>> > any
>> > optimization gone into this as of lately?
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>> There's no specific optimisation being done for Sugar on the Raspberry
>> Pi. There is some general looking at platform optimisation in general.
>> I'm not sure of the status of Sugar in Debian but Sugar in Fedora ARM
>> is up to date to the latest OLPC stable releases they ship on the XOs
>> on F18 and there's an ongoing project to optimise Fedora on the
>> Raspberry Pi.
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> I see one of the big issues according to this post are activities such as
> Browse, Read, Ruler and Tamtam. Some of them are pretty well used by kids.
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/Sweets_on_Raspberry_pi_armhf_raspbian#Activities
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> I don't think this is distro related issues but on architecture/code.
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Regarding the broken activities, this is in large part due to the
limitations of the particular version of Sugar being run. I.e., newer
versions of Sugar/Browse use webkit and would probably run.

-walter

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