[Sugar-devel] Had a chance to try SoaS in anger...

[Gary C Martin]

On 18 Feb 2009, at 12:47, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> Thanks Gary,
>
> This was a fun email to wake up to. :)

I though you might :-)

> Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Some quick updates:

>> He knew that SoaS was very much a work in development, but was very  
>> pleased to see it working (and has taken a copy of the .iso to demo  
>> to others involved).

He's already burnt a live-CD from the iso, I've sent him the link to  
the Fedora live USB utility so he can try making up a stick.

>> - Tried to resume some journal entries during the demo (USB booted  
>> machine) but the Journal entries just vanished from the journal as  
>> they were clicked


Think this may have been my bad – but can't test now – pretty sure  
when I danced the Fedora dance to create the bootable USB stick, I  
didn't specify a value for 'persistent storage' so the image was  
likely read only. oops.

>> - The neighborhood showed lots of wireless APs, but unfortunately  
>> would not associate with any (just pulsed for a bit, no password  
>> dialogue)

He emailed this morning to say he's been able to connect to an un- 
secured AP and get internet access, he also noticed 3 buddy icons  
appearing in the Neighbourhood view, so he's getting to SoaS's default  
jabber server for collaboration. Mentioned he's going to set up  
another laptop and see if they can collaborate together, also going to  
try a WEP secured AP, the one we tried and failed with was WPA secured.

--Gary

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