Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Sebastian Dziallas schrieb:
Bryan Kearney wrote:
I have put together a sugar desktop appliance [1], but I am not very familiar with the sugar desktop in order to adequately test it. I am looking for anyone who is willing to take a few minutes and give it a spin. The directions for xen/kvm are:
- Download [1]
- Untar and unzip it
- run virt-image sugar.xml
- At the fedora login, select "Autologin"
You are good to go. If you would like to build it yourself, you can get build this with the appliance creator [2] using the kickstart file [3].
-- bk
[1] http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz [2] http://www.thincrust.net/tooling.html [3] http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugar.ks
Yeah... great!
If I got some spare time, I'll make sure to give it a try ;) It's just that my CPU isn't xen/kvm compatible, so I'll need to convert the applicane...
By the way: This may be a very well start for a possible sugar-based spin. I'm going to dig a little bit deeper into it :)
Sorry if I'm ignorant or missing something here but what is "a desktop appliance"?
Thanks, Christoph
Sebastian
Well, it's not a spin (so you're not going to download an ISO file or something like this). Maybe one could define it as a virtual machine coming with pre-configured content (this is, how I'd try to explain it in few works, feel free to correct me :).
You could have a look at this one: http://www.thincrust.org/
They've information on creating those appliances using Fedora tools.
Ahh... just came across their definition:
"An appliance is a pre-configured application and operating system bundle. Configuration options are controlled for ease of use and installation. "
Hope this helps, Sebastian
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Sebastian Dziallas