[Chicago] Sugar development image

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Mar 13 21:57:00 CET 2007


Chris McAvoy wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>> At least on Linux, qemu is the recommended VM.  I don't think networking works
>> out of the box with VMWare, as the olpc image doesn't support VMWares nic, but
>> it does support qemu's.
>>
> 
> It looks like he built a gentoo box and compiled Sugar on it, so it's
> not really the XO image, just a good development environment for
> Sugar.  Which is worth playing around with.  I'm going to kick of a
> download in 5...4...3...2....Thanks corporate LAN!

Right; this is really a Gentoo image, that also happens to have all the 
Sugar components built (which is hard).  The other images are the 
identical images to what gets put on the actual laptop, which is smaller 
and not really suited to development.

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