<div class="gmail_quote">Thanks a lot for the clarifications Martin, much appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Christoph</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Martin Dengler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@martindengler.com">martin@martindengler.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:06:05PM +0545, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:<br> > Apologies if this is a stupid question but what are the differences and<br> > advantages/disadvantages of a SoaS-on-XO-1 install versus the F11-on-XO-1<br> > approach that some are taking?<br> <br> </div>They have very similar goals; the main differences in goals,<br> AFAICS, are:<br> <br> 1) release schedule (SoaS-linked vs. OLPC-linked);<br> <br> 2) target audience (SoaS-users vs. OLPC XO-1 build users);<br> <br> 3) the supported desktop experiences (Sugar alone vs. Sugar and<br> GNOME)<br> <br> But I'm publishing my images mainly because I can. 狢 happen to be<br> creating them for my own (XO-1) use, and trying to make them useful to<br> the SoaS people and (hopefully) the F11-on-XO-1 people (in the<br> future).<br> <div class="im"><br> > I'm quite confused about this at the moment as on first sight it seems like<br> > both efforts are trying to do exactly the same thing (making the latest<br> > Sugar run on an XO-1)...<br> <br> </div>They are, almost. 狢'm also a commiter to fedora-xo (though I haven't<br> had time to do any SoaS or F11-on-XO-1 work lately) and an avid<br> follower of Daniel Drake, Stephen Parrish, and others' work therein.<br> So I hope we're not really duplicating much work, though we're<br> duplicating some git repos and bits-on-disk :).<br> <br> > Thanks,<br> > Christoph<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Martin<br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>