[K12OSN] Sugar desktop.

[David Farning]

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