[Edu-sig] What Linux distro?

[Fahreddın Basegmez]

Hi Edwards

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Fahreddın Basegmez
> <mangabasi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been developing a programmable scientific visualization
>> tool/rapid game maker with wxPython for a while.  I recently released
>> the first public beta version that works on windows only.  Now, I am
>> going to start working on a Linux version very soon.  I have not
>> decided which distro to use yet but leaning towards Ubuntu.  Could you
>> give me some feedback?  What is the most popular distro in educational
>> institutes/settings?
>
> It is not at all a choice of just one distribution. We all want what
> you are doing, and we cooperate to make it available everywhere.
> Packagers for many distributions will take hold of anything that
> becomes available from a suitable upstream source. I am copying this
> to Jonas Smedagaard, a Debian packager who can give you better advice
> than I can on getting started. Anything in a Debian package is likely
> to flow through to Ubuntu, Edubuntu, and other distributions fairly
> rapidly.
>
> You can also get help putting your software into Red Hat Fedora, and
> from there into another whole stream of distributions. I am copying
> this to Greg DeKoenigsberg, a Red Hat community organizer, who can
> help you make the right contacts there.
>
> Those two will get your software launched in all of the most popular
> distributions, including several education-specific distributions, and
> numerous language-specific distributions around the world. If you
> would like to follow up on that, you can contact the localization
> groups for Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu.
>
> Lastly, I would suggest getting your software into Sugar for the One
> Laptop Per Child XO and other systems. You should join the Sugar
> Development mailing list at http://lists.sugarlabs.org for that.
> Again, Sugar software feeds to Fedora, Debian, and so on from there,
> and Sugar is being localized into something like 80 languages. Sugar
> has well over a million education users, with many more on the way.
>
>> You can download the application from www.mekanimo.net.
>>
>> Also I have a 5 min video at
>> http://mekanimomedia.s3.amazonaws.com/tangram/Tangram.html
>>
>> If you try the application, I would appreciate your feedback about that too.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Fahri Basegmez
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Hi Edwards,

I just fired up an Ubuntu 8.10 based PC yesterday and I liked what I
saw a lot.  I think you are right, Debian should be the starting
point.  Once it works in Ubuntu (or Debian), porting to Fedora or
other systems should be doable too.

I talked to Walter Bender in May/07 when Mekanimo was very, very
primitive, he and Nicholas Negroponte wanted to include it in OLPC but
I was told that wxPython would not run due to some constraints the
machines/Sugar had.  I realize a lot changed since then ;)

Thank you very much for the contact info, I am sure I will need help porting it.

Regards,

Fahri