education October 2008

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Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Sebastian Dziallas 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

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.z… Thank you everybody, who made this possible! --Sebastian

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Reviving Education SIG
by Sebastian Dziallas 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

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

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Re: Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Jeremy Katz 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

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 ;)

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Re: Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Jeremy Katz 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

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

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