<div dir="ltr">Feedback on <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Emarco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso</a> Wow! It runs on my 128 MB RAM Pentium II! I don't have a duplicate of the Shaw 256MB computers but clearly this is a great sign. One odd thing to report.  When I tried to start Calculate it thought for a while, but didn't open it and went back to the home page.  This happened on my 2GB Pentium 4 machine as well. This is great progress.  Thanks! <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <<a href="mailto:mpgritti@gmail.com">mpgritti@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote: > Just downloaded. Will burn a CD shortly and test on the machines I have here > before I leave for the weekend. I'll be back Tuesday. > > What is the process of going from a CD to a USB? </div>Right now I think the only way is to run a command on a Fedora box. Something like this. livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512 livecd-fedora-livecd-sugar-200810091224.iso /dev/sdb1 There is  also a tool for Windows, Sebastian is working on getting it to work. <div class="Ih2E3d"> >> > Boot Helper CD >> >> Do you have any pointer about this? I can look at it and see what it >> would take to make it work with Fedora liveusb. > > <a href="ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/slax-boot-usb-from-cd-6.0.7.iso" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/slax-boot-usb-from-cd-6.0.7.iso</a> > > and our discussion on it: > <a href="http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=21028" target="_blank">http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=21028</a> </div>Thanks, I'll look at it. <div class="Ih2E3d"> >> >> > Instructions on how to add an Apps such as GIMP >> >> Sugar support for normal desktop applications is suboptimal at the >> moment. We are working to address it properly in this release cycle. >> Admittedly GIMP is probably the hardest application to handle, because >> of his unusual windows model. >> >> In the meantime it's possible to use the X activity to run gimp: >> >> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity</a> >> >> And yeah writing instructions of how to get gimp to work using this >> approach should not be hard. > > Cool, should be good enough for now.  I was impressed at the "iphone app > store" mentality.  They all immediately wanted to install apps on it.  I > think this is a great thing and a great path towards getting students to > create apps.  But this is a long term issue, not something to be solved this > month. </div>There are a lot of activities that can be downloaded and installed (with a single click) from <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/Activities" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/Activities</a> <div class="Ih2E3d"> >> >> >> > A Jabber Server for them to collaborate (nice to have) >> >> David might have better insight than me on this one, since he is >> working on sorting out Sugar Labs infrastructure. OLPC is also working >> on setting up a server I think, so using that one is another >> possibility. > > I may have the resources to do this, I'll talk to the sysadmin I work with. </div>Note that Sugar requires a special jabber server. I'm ccing morgs which could give you more informations on this. It's also possible to collaborate without a server on the local network, but it doesn't scale much. Still could be a way to at least show the collaboration features. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Longer term, I have a vision of having hundreds of middle and high school > developed country service+technology oriented kids with Sugar.  Someone > comes out with a new app or a new release and they want it tested they put > it out to this list and get quick feedback.  These kids are also a potential > grassroots marketing arm into the elementary schools as we encourage them to > demo to their old teachers. </div>I had more or less your same vision when I read your blog post :) Marco </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax </div>