Hi, The Sugar on a Stick vision is that students can use many different computers. Part of this vision is that sometimes, on computers that the school owns we will have a sort of "core sugar" running and that we will get personalized data from the stick. Right now we are calling these "boot-helpers" but we probably need a better name. Some use cases are as follows: <ul><li>A computer is donated to the school with a request to wipe the hard drive. We wipe the hard drive and install a specialzied Linux (Fedora today, others also in the future) that just does the boot and looks for a USB for all the student files.</li> </ul><ul><li>The school has a laptop cart of Mac ibooks. We install a Virtual machine of some kind (Virtual Box or VMWare probably) that does the same thing, it looks to the USB for student files.</li></ul>Help towards this vision is certainly welcome. Can you tell us more about what you want to do and what hardware you want to support and what technology you want to do it with? Thanks, Caroline <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Eduardo Silva wrote: > just updated... """ The big difference with Sugar_on_a_Stick, is that we don't keep the OS in the storage device, sugar_on_a_stick uses an OS very generic and with grane we avoid that, both have different goals. """ The technique is different, but how are the goals different? The technology is irrelevant; what matters is the user experience. Why would Grane provide a significantly better user experience than Sugar-on-a-stick? """ Grane will work over Sugar and Sugar over a very customized OS environment for the running hardware. It will be designed to fast-switching between session around different computers, computer just contain the Sugar environment and sugar-Grane do the dirty tasks. Also it will helps to do a hard copy from one kid session to another Sugar environment if desired. """ I don't understand this. Note that you can also write proposals in Spanish, and we can help translate. --Ben _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax