sugar spin and liveusb-creator

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> you may have already noticed, but we've got a Sugar spin based on Fedora
>> up here:
> 
> I'm loathe to CC all those lists, but being a newbie, what exactly does
> this mean?  Are these new releases of the XO software?  Or of the Fedora
> 10 stuff for XO?  Or sugar on non-XO Fedora?  A replacement for the 767
> image I installed?  Or is this something else entirely?

Well, basically, this means that you can now grab an iso image and have 
a look at the Sugar desktop environment without needing to install it 
anywhere. That way, you can give Sugar a test drive just on your normal 
machine. Since we're still in the progress of getting all the activities 
(you may get for your XO) ported into Fedora, this image doesn't include 
all of them, yet -- work in progress ;)

> I was brought in to help with the fedora 10 testing on OLPC, but I'm
> still having a hard time telling which of the billions of mails to the
> testing and OLPC lists are relevant to me.  ;)
> 
> As people start getting their XOs, is there going to be a coordination
> effort to make it more obvious what specific things we should be doing
> to give relevant test help?  I feel like there are too many unrelated
> and separate things going on, and I'm not sure what to focus my efforts
> on...

I'm sure this will get well coordinated. As far as I know, there are 
gregdek, jlaska and jeremy working on the coordination of the testing 
efforts.

My e-mail wasn't that much related to the upcoming OLPC testing effort, 
since it concerns the port of Sugar to Fedora and not the port of Fedora 
to the XO... ;)

> Is there a jargon file somewhere that describes what a "spin" and an
> "overlay" are and how they relate to a live CD, which I assume is
> something different.  And what I should be doing to make sure I'm
> testing the right/latest stuff?
> 
> Sorry for all the questions, just the longer I'm on the list(s), the
> more I'm confused as to what I should be doing, rather than less.  :)

No worries, I believe this will all become clearer once the testing 
plans will be outlined.

--Sebastian