[sword-devel] olpc discussion

[Jason Galyon]

Yes, handily there are virtual images available also for Parallels and QEMU.

Check out http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Setup for information for 
developers.

Personally, I prefer to use the jhbuild (sugar-jhbuild) to get the 
latest development goodies.

Let me know if you need any help setting the environment up.

Jason

DM Smith wrote:
> I found an interesting link that has the XO running in VMWare's Fusion. 
> Probably would work for their other offerings. This might provide an 
> easy way to play around with it.
>
> http://www.freesmug.org/newsitems/news912
>
> In Him,
>     DM Smith
>
> DJ Ortley wrote:
>   
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of something like this, 
>> but should we be looking at the One Laptop Per Child project?
>>
>> While that project is not intended for (and many on the project may be 
>> quite hostile towards) religious material, I would assume it would 
>> still be a good thing to have resources that would be focused towards 
>> these laptops.
>>
>> Yes, the laptops are Linux under the hood, but are the Linux based 
>> sword front ends workable solutions on these things?
>>
>> Do the current Linux programs need to be tuned, or might it be better 
>> to write a new program from scratch?  There might be some special 
>> issues with Sugar.
>>
>> This could be a place where specially hardwired packaged binaries 
>> might come in.
>>
>> Since Sugar is built with Python, maybe there's something interesting 
>> that can be done with Sword's Python bindings.
>>
>> Also, here's the wiki on the eBooks (which I gather are viewable when 
>> the laptop is in low power mode..)
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ebooks
>>
>> Maybe making some of the modules in various languages (primarily 
>> biblical texts) available somehow..
>>
>> I don't know, what does everyone think?  I'm just shotgunning stuff 
>> out at the moment.
>>
>> Anybody who decides they want to write a Sugar specific interface 
>> would have to remember that they're going to have to closely follow a 
>> very moving target for the next couple of years.
>>
>> -DJ
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