Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody,
I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin,
which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD.
So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run
Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used
on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on
the image including most notably...
* sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
* sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support.
We, the OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora,
which might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time.
Where can you get it? Easily, here:
http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso
Here's the SHA1 checksum, just if you're interested:
f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d sugar-spin.iso
And what if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? Even easier!
You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already
includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0...
Thank you everybody, who made this possible!
--Sebastian
15 years, 5 months
Reviving Education SIG
by Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody,
it has been calm over the past weeks here. In fact, alarmingly calm.
I had a talk with Rex some time ago and we decided that some things
needed to change here. So why am I posting and why are we doing this?
* to make you aware that we've an almost empty wishlist here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Apps#Wishlist
* to show you that there's still a lot of work to be done (tasks):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education/Meetings
* to bring other things than "just spins" to the surface
* to *not* let this project die easily
Again, we *need* some kind of feedback from the people! So please speak
up, if you're interested, have an idea or want to help.
Kind Regards,
Sebastian Dziallas
15 years, 5 months
Re: Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:31 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look
> >> very good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default
> >> instead. (It might just be the graphics card qemu is emulating,
> >> but even if that's the case we should consider fixing it for
> >> qemu..)
>
> > It's the graphics card qemu emulates (Cirrus). The answer to
> > fixing it is to get something more reasonable emulated within qemu
> > than an ancient Cirrus Logic chip ;-)
>
> I just booted the Ubuntu 8.10 live image on the same (Rawhide) kvm
> install and it's using 1024x768 by default, which is much more pleasant:
>
> (--) CIRRUS(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
> (**) CIRRUS(0): *Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz
> (II) CIRRUS(0): Modeline "1024x768"x75.0 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz)
>
> Perhaps there's a patch we can pull?
The "patch" is that they use an xorg.conf and hard-code 1024x768 as
their default resolution. We don't use an xorg.conf at all[1] in Fedora
and instead rely on the X server to be able to probe things. Cirrus
hardware doesn't support any form of reasonable DDC and thus it goes
with its fallback which is 800x600. Given that most of the hardware
which ends up using the fallback paths is old and that hardware is the
hardware most likely to have problems with > 800x600, it's not really
safe to change that.
Jeremy
[1] With the exception of on the XO, where we still have to create one
because the driver is lame ;)
15 years, 6 months
Re: Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look very
> good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default instead. (It
> might just be the graphics card qemu is emulating, but even if that's
> the case we should consider fixing it for qemu..)
It's the graphics card qemu emulates (Cirrus). The answer to fixing it
is to get something more reasonable emulated within qemu than an ancient
Cirrus Logic chip ;-)
Jeremy
15 years, 6 months