Before completely dismissing the mac ppc architecture, it is noteworthy that the platform has a bright retrograde future in tablets.<div><a href="http://blogger-off.com/apple-powerbook-g4-12-tablet/">http://blogger-off.com/apple-powerbook-g4-12-tablet/</a></div> <div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> PPC on Mac is also, unfortunately, a platform with no future, the last machine having been manufactured in 2005. It's a tribute to Apple's hardware quality that many are still around (I have G3s, G4s and G5s still going strong, including one of the latter duals maxed out with 8 Gb of RAM and 6 Tb of onboard disk) but the most recent MacOS (10.6) does not run on them, nor does any version of VirtualBox. Sean <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > Caryl, > Running Sugar in any machine is not free, we must invest many,many, hours > of work, and the complexity of the plataform is increased. > We need select out targets, we don't have infinite resources. > Regards, > > Gonzalo > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> I haven't run Android on anything since I took my Android phone back to >> Verizon after trying and not liking it for a few days a couple of years ago. >> I am talking about running Sugar using whatever method can be devised. The >> easier the better! >> I have run Strawberry and Blueberry in a Virtual Box on my MacBook, but >> not without problems. I haven't tried the VB on the PowerBook I gave my >> husband after replacing the defunct hard drive and getting a new MacBook (no >> longer new ;-( . I have been able to run EToys to Go on both of them as well >> as an eeePC I bought so I could experiment with these things. Etoys project >> files transfer seamlessly between all three of these machines. My dream >> situation would be to have Sugar work the same way. >> Caryl >> >> > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:23:02 -0400 >> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets >> > From: <a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a> >> > To: <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a> >> > CC: <a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; >> > <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a> >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Martin Langhoff >> > <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> >> > > wrote: >> > >> PCs and Linux machines yes. But... there still lots of issues with >> > >> Macs and >> > >> so far it does not work with the older G4 Power PC Macs (EToys to go >> > >> does!). >> > > >> > > Does Android run on your G4 PPC Mac?? Or is this all random talk? >> > >> > This week's work (Sugar-on-Chrome) provides a much better story for >> > desktop compatibility. >> > --scott >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > </div></div>_______________________________________________ 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> </div>