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Sugar up openSUSE: A hackweek project
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Sugar up openSUSE: A hackweek project
by cyberorg,
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
Here is an idea, build OLPC XO’s Sugar interface for openSUSE this hackweek.
What is Sugar?
- Sugar graphical user interface, written in Python, on top of the X Window System and the Matchbox Window Manager.
- Designed specifically for collaboration of users through network sharing of user activities (method calls and signals);
- “Zooming” interface to network connectivity “spheres” (local, collaborators, neighborhood);
- Journal interface to storage of events, activities, objects (files)
Why Sugar?
As sugar is designed specifically for children, getting that interface to openSUSE would enable administrators in developing countries to run Sugar on normal desktop or on diskless workstations via KIWI-LTSP, providing the same environment available on OLPC laptops to children who have not got their XO yet.
Status:
The work is in progress, thanks to Fedora and our fantastic openSUSE Build Service, most packages required are now in one place. I could get it working on openSUSE at the end of the first day :). There is still more work to be done.
Obligatory screenie (yes it is openSUSE):
: Sayamindu, August 26, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Wow, thanks for this :-).
Do drop in at #sugar on Freenode if you have any kind of questions. You may also want to take a look at the discussions at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8136
: Simon Schampijer, August 26, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Hey this sounds great - keep up the good work!
You may want to add instructions here when you are done
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems
Thanks,
Simon
: David, August 29, 2008 @ 2:11 pm
cyberorg,
Hey, This is great work! One of our short term goals at Sugar Labs is to make the Sugar learning platform distribution agnostic.
I am working to ensure that distributions have the necessary resources to build and distribute Sugar packages. Don’t tell the SL developers…I am hoping to encourage the distributions to engage with our bug tracker at http://dev.laptop.org .
Please drop me an email so we can make sure the entire Sugar community can take advantage of your great work.
dfarning
: Boycott Novell » Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part I: OpenSUSE and Summer’s Hack Week, August 30, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
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