[K12OSN] Sugar desktop.

Peter Hartmann ascensiontech at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 17:13:41 UTC 2008


Has anyone here successfully built sugar on Centos 5 with the
instructions for FC6?   Having some trouble getting it to start and
thought I'd sound you out.

Peter


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Rob Owens
<rob.owens at biochemfluidics.com> wrote:
> David Farning wrote:
>
>> Seriously, the question of what can we do to use technology to help kids
>> learn is still open.
>>
>
> One of the things that specifically concerns LTSP use is the way the
> software uses RAM.  I'm not an expert, but I've heard it mentioned on
> this list many times that Firefox, for instance, does not share RAM in a
> multi-user situation as well as other software packages.  If a software
> package uses 50MB of RAM for the first user, it should not (for a good
> LTSP experience) use another 50MB for the second user.  It should use
> maybe 5MB for the second user, and 5MB for each additional user, while
> "sharing" 45MB of information from the first user.
>
> I realize that's not really what you were asking about, but I think it's
> pretty important if you are targeting LTSP users.
>
> -Rob
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