<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think users will still need to install and run an X server to run unix GUI programs; but there are several good X servers for windows, so this should be easy
</blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">it's true that I can run some FLOSS GUI software using an X server on my Mac (the GIMP for example). This required installing OSX developer tools, a hoop too far for easy deployment on that platform.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In the past I proposed offering prebuilt Sugar VMs (with language/keyboard set for example) for Oracle VirtualBox, which has a little-known licensing advantage: runtime installer distribution for educational purposes. VirtualBox means a teacher or parent could set Sugar in fullscreen yet return to their usual environment with a click. The (enormous) downside of that solution is the massive size of a VM, and maintaining a matrix of prebuilt VMs would be a lot of thankless work. My idea had been to approach Oracle about helping with that.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sean<br><br></div></div>