Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:20:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Bryan Berry <bryanbryanb [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] com>
Subject: [sugar] A special linux distribution for developing OLPC
applications
To: sugar [ at ] laptop [ dot ] org, devel [ at ] laptop [ dot ] org
Cc: yowlanku [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com
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Hey guys, we are thinking of building a new linux distribution
pre-configured w/ all of the development tools for Sugar and Squeak.
The reason for this is that it is fairly complicated to set up
Sugar-jhbuild from scratch and download all the development tools and
documentation. Complicating this picture, broadband isn't a reality
for most developers where we are (Nepal). Building sugar-jhbuild from
scratch will take days across a 56K line.
We have alot of talented open-source developers here in Nepal that are
very interested in contributing to OLPC. We can't give everyone of
them an XO but at least we can help them started on their existing
hardware. We envision that people all over the world could use this
distro for Sugar applications development. We even would like to
eventually build in tools for that non-technical people, such as
teachers, could use the distro to create learning materials.
We intend to hand out CDs of the distro at FOSS meetings and computer
science Departments.
Does anyone know if a similar tool exists? We would like to avoid
duplicating the efforts of others.
Here is the basic description of what we have in mind
http://wiki.olpcnepal.org/index.php?title=Make_A_Distro
We intend to use Ubuntu 6.10 and subsequent Ubuntu releases. We don't
want to get into the business of patch management.
Let me know what you think.
Tentatively we are thinking of calling it XO-Buntu (ZO-buntu) or
Saraswati after the Hindu goddess of knowledge
Bryan Berry
OLPC Nepal
wiki.olpcnepal.org
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