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<pre wrap="">Bastien;
I am forwarding your e-mail to people who will be better to answer your questions.
Thank you for your interest.
(see notes below)
Tom Gilliard
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<pre wrap="">Dear Thomas,
Thomas C Gilliard <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com"><satellit@bendbroadband.com></a> writes:
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This is great news! I'm looking forward testing it soon.
May I ask you some advice on quite another topic?
We (OLPC France) are working on a new activity to let children build
stories -- something along CartoonBuilder, but slightly more flexible.
This is a request from a foundation in France who wants to deploy this
activity in several schools by the end of April.
We found a Sugar developer, and the foundation is paying him to code the
activity. You can check for preliminary code on a.sl.o:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/atoidepoc">http://git.sugarlabs.org/atoidepoc</a>
There is one aspect of the project we have to deal with and where I
think your advice will be priceless: how to let anyone run this activity
on <span class="moz-txt-underscore"><span class="moz-txt-tag">_</span>any<span
class="moz-txt-tag">_</span></span> computer? (Image old computers in primary schools.)
We proposed two solutions: a virtual machine + .iso, and SOAS.
Does the triskel .iso is the best .iso we can VM? Which WM? Is it
possible to bundle the VM and the .iso in one single .exe and .dmg so
that users don't have to take care of installing anything?
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I just discovered that the Trisquel 4.1sugar.iso (as a Burned CD)
boots on a MacBook Air but it does not display correctly.<br>
(Hold down the "C" key on power on until the boot screen is shown)<br>
It may need a proper xdriver=vesa driver. This needs to be investigated
farther.<br>
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VirtualBox is agnostic to most OS and Hardware. (Except for Power PC
Mac.s)<br>
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Yes the VM files; trisquel-sugar_4.1_i686.iso (and the VirtualBox
installers in a subdirectory) can be burned onto a DVD if needed.<br>
I do not think the .dmg is presently achievable. Others will know a lot
more than I do on this topic.<br>
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If we can get the CD to Boot on an intel MAC properly , we would have a
universal CD which could be built with your atoidepoc application
installed on it.<br>
Trisquel has several features: <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#Live_CD_persistence">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#Live_CD_persistence</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#USB_load_helper">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast#USB_load_helper</a><br>
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That we can investigate further.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I guess you get the spirit of the problem: we need to make it extra
smooth for the users...
Any advice much appreciated.
Also, I'll have the details of the available budget from this foundation
next week, and chances are that we will need someone taking care of
packaging this activity. Is it something you would be interested in?
I copy Sean who knows this problems better than I do, and who's been
involved in this (great) project since the beginning.
Thanks a lot!
Looking forward to reading you,
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Bastien
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