Fedora 11 + Sugar + TamTam

[Philip Rhoades]

Peter & DancesWithCars,

Thanks for the info!

Phil.


On 2009-09-22 21:23, DancesWithCars wrote:
> Sugar is more like an X desktop environment,
> so you would have to add another kernel/ iso
> to make it worth doing a virtual machine, kvm,
> qemu, virtualbox or whatever,
>
> Having multiple desktop environments is
> a bit of the issue, afaict.
>
> I'm running 64 bit Fedora Core 11 now,
> and have a vanilla sugar desktop from the
> yum repos (mentioned elsewhere on this thread)
> and a jhbuild later version, which I compile
> and run with jhbuild run (or similar, think there
> is a sugar- before it) when I want the latest
> that is not yet packaged for fedora.
>
> sound works, probably thru pulseaudio
> though most of the sound on olpc
> is done with csound, afaict.
>
>
> It would be nice to run 64 bit
> and run a little 32 bit image in virtual,
> but I've found the virtual environments
> not a good, resource intensive etc,
> so unless you are hacking the kernel
> and don't want to reboot so much,
> virtualization is a bit of overkill, imo.
>
> hope that clears a little bit up.
> but just what I know and more
> people on the list probably know
> lots more..
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Philip Rhoades<phil at pricom.com.au>  wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> Sorry - I should have changed the Subject on the previously sent mail . .
>>
>> I have been interested in the OLPC project for some time but only decided to
>> try and install the Fedora Sugar desktop when I came across a mention of the
>> TamTam application (for creating music).  After a bit of messing around I
>> got the Sugar desktop to start (on Fedora 11) but I don't get any sound and
>> TamTam is supposed to be already installed but I don't see it . .
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Also, I will probably update to a 64bit machine with a Fedora 12 beta - I
>> presume Sugar would work in KVM virtual machine?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.
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