[Sugar-devel] Sugar-On-The-Ground features

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Sebastian

The design assumption is a server using xsce6 (CentOS). Naturally, there 
are
many ways to build a LAMP stack and large deployments such as Uruguay, 
Peru,
and others may have their own solution (e.g. Rwanda has its own as well).

What I said was that Sugar and the school server form a system and, for 
best
effect, must be designed to work together. Martin Langhoff designed such 
a system
but the Sugar developers did not take advantage of the capability. I am 
certainly not saying
that a Sugar deployment is not free to design their own.

If you want an rsync solution, that is what is currently implemented in 
Sugar (although
James Cameron claims this is not part of Sugar). It is distributed in 
the 13.2.5 release.

Remember, Sugar was intended to support deployment of OLPC where it was 
reasonable to
expect that there were no other computers in the area and that a 
deployment would have at
most one server.

Tony

On 05/17/2016 07:50 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>> The combination of a school server and Sugar is a system in which both
>> >parts must work together. As I understand it there are
>> >three environments for Sugar: standalone, with an active internet
>> >connection, and with a school server and no or limited internet access.
>> >The Sugar on the Ground is intended to support the third environment.
> Your assumption is wrong, in that not everyone will use the same flavour
> of server. In Perú, some will use the Ministry's PeruEduca distro,
> others will use some Ubuntu flavour, or who knows what else. None use
> the xs schoolserver as prepared by this community. Same thing for
> Argentina, where Huayra GNU/Linux includes some parts of Sugar and have
> their own server solution. You can't assume a homogeneous network or
> that you will have the luxury of dictating how the server is configured,
> but you might assume most if not all will have ssh+rsync. These are not
> small deployments either.
>> >Originally, OLPC deployment was standalone with a laptop-laptop
>> >network for collaboration. However, it was realized that much more
>> >could be done in a deployment with a school server to provide access
>> >to some of the content available on the internet. Unfortunately Sugar
>> >did not work closely with Martin Langhoff to make for a
>> >well-integrated system.
> It was actually Mr. Langhoff who did not develop standard solutions that
> could be upstreamable into standard GNU/Linux distributions and worked
> with assumptions such as the schoolserver being the only server in the
> network etc. We should not make the same mistake.
>