<div dir="ltr">Pretty extreme but pretty cool. FWIW, the first 15 years or so of my computing career was spent working at 640x480 :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi It seems the closest thing to an XO being released this year is <a href="http://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip</a> I was happy to finally see a 'dynabook' design (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook</a> :) I ordered one and asked their support line if anything special needs to be done to get Sugar working, and their response is below: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Young (Next Thing Co. Crew) <<a href="mailto:support@nextthing.co">support@nextthing.co</a>> Date: 5 May 2016 at 15:54 Subject: [Next Thing Co.] Re: Sugar on an PocketCHIP? > Brilliant!! Please may I repost your reply on the sugar-devel mailing list? :) Absolutely! Fun fact, one of our devs had actually looked at using Sugar for our default environment for CHIP during early stages of development. It may also interest you to know that we've created our own app-like interface for adding new pieces of software, etc. -- Ben ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ben Young (Next Thing Co. Crew) <<a href="mailto:support@nextthing.co">support@nextthing.co</a>> Date: 5 May 2016 at 14:49 Subject: [Next Thing Co.] Re: Sugar on an PocketCHIP? To: Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>> Hi Dave, There's some instructions on the Sugar Labs wiki [<a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian</a>] for installing Sugar on Debian. However, the instructions point to using packages from the testing/stretch repository, and I only see it available in unstable/sid. I went through the process detailed under the "Using Sugar on Debian" section, with the exception of using 'sid' in place of 'stretch' in the first line. The install was ~400MB on top of our 600MB default install [this could be fairly easily trimmed down though] leaving ~2.6GB of free space. The installation went well, but there does seem to be a few small visual artifacts as a result of the 640x480 resolution. In the calculator for example, the equation entry field is smaller than the text being input into it. But in any case, the installation works, it just looks like the DE itself could use some TLC in regards to lower resolution compatibility. I would imagine in it's current state to be near unusable on a PocketCHIP. -- 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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- <div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Walter Bender Sugar Labs</div><div><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"></a> </div></div></div> </div>