Thanks Gary, This was a fun email to wake up to. :) Good luck and let us know how it goes! Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Gary C Martin <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.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;">... and it worked :-) Just back from a 3hr+ meeting with a potential school deployment, they'd contacted me a few weeks back regarding the desire for a 50 XO initial trial to improve e-learning skills (looking at about 100 total). Email Q/A with him were good until OLPC dropped the 'change the world' program last week (killed off any new 100 laptop size deployments)... Any way, seeing as I do have 3 OLPC development XOs here, and he was also interested when I mentioned the possibility of SoaS as an alternative for running Sugar, I went ahead with the demo. I took a chance and took a Soas-200902061045.iso USB SoaS, and also a live CD of it. Flying blind as neither of which can I actually test myself – I'm all PPC Mac – the CD I burnt with Disk Utility on the Mac, and the USB stick I danced a magic Fedora based XO dance (pleased to see no USB re-format was necessary). He had 2 oldish laptops for the SoaS test, one could not boot from USB (so we used the CD on it), the other had a BIOS option for USB Harddisk which turned out to work great. CD booting was quite slow (as expected) perhaps twice as slow as booting a real XO. USB booting was real fast (perhaps two or three times faster than a real XO - but I didn't time it). - Both machines ran Sugar very quickly to what I'm used to (vs. the XOs) - The neighborhood showed lots of wireless APs, but unfortunately would not associate with any (just pulsed for a bit, no password dialogue) - No sound support (was trying to demo eToys car honking code at one point) - Laptop displays both correctly auto powered off after usual idle time - Both seemed to be showing the correct battery level status in their device frames - Write would have been nice to show on the larger laptop screens, but doesn't launch (known missing libraries) - Turtle Art looks great on the big screen :-) - Tried to resume some journal entries during the demo (USB booted machine) but the Journal entries just vanished from the journal as they were clicked - Both machines had sporadic semi-corrupt graphics on seemingly random icons/widgets, I assumed some low level gfx drive issue. Not many glitches, just a few. - No crashes for either machine, both were running for at least several hours. - Fonts were not quite large enough, but were at least readable :-) PC Laptop specs were:        Compaq nx9030 HP        Intel pentium M 1.73Ghz        1.2Gb ram        Compaq nx6110 HP        Intel pentium M 1.73Ghz        512Mb ram He knew that SoaS was very much a work in development, but was very pleased to see it working (and has taken a copy of the .iso to demo to others involved). Most time was spent on the XO's showing off the mesh collaboration features (write, maze, colors!, distance are great for this), music, speech etc, and going through most of the activities I'd had installed (~20-30) – so he got to see a stable Sugar with 'all the bits' working as well as the pre-release SoaS taster. Just thought I should post, --Gary</blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax