[K12OSN] Sugar desktop.
David Farning
dfarning at sugarlabs.org
Thu Aug 21 17:37:26 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:26 -0400, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:15 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
> >> You'd also have to decide where your Jabber server and other server
> >> infrastructure fits in.
> >
> > This is the part that I am trying to figure out. In the original
> > implementation, the desktop was so closely tied to the hardware that
> > working on it required a significant amount of os and hardware
> > knowledge. The learning curve was too steep to engage new developers.
> >
> > As an effect of splitting sugar development from XO development, we are
> > establishing an abstracting layer between the two.
> >
> > My thoughts are to establish a similar abstraction barrier between the
> > XS hardware and the top layer services.
>
> I haven't been keeping up with XS development. It used to be
> relatively hardware independent. How is it tied to hardware now?
>
> What's the status of Jabber server installation with the necessary
> plug-ins for Sugar collaboration? Are there RPMs that work?
>
> --Tom
I'll get back to you shortly about these question.
thanks
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