[baltolug] young kid friendly ubuntu

[jerry w]

Arm64

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016, 13:44 jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sugar, in various incarnations, hasn't worked that well, for me, on
> ubuntu...
> Various build tools, version skew, modded python && libraries, etc,
> therefore find on a stick, learn to add another distro, partition, grub,
> etc, find apps/games, like pippy, pong, tuxpaint, etc that kids like and
> add to ubuntu, even if the sugar desktop environment doesn't run on you
> main distro.
> My $0.02.
> Yes, sugar and olpc funded by red hat, I still have olpc-1.0s, in various
> states of disrepair.
> RaspberryPi, now up to 3, with amd64, released/shipped TODAY, from first
> release 4 years ago, might run ubuntu, idk yet, berryboot, and pull
> multiple distros on armf    , but I digress...
> Yes, still ubuntu lists, edubuntu, not as familiar, but olpc, sugar, etc
> worth mentioning.
> We now return to regular programming...
>
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016, 13:34 Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> jerry w wrote:
>> > Sugar-labs.org sugar on a stick.
>> > Doesn't run completely on ubuntu, some red hat magic sauce.
>>
>> Er, um, maybe that's because it's an official, Fedora Spin?  (shrugs
>> shoulders)
>>
>> Might also have to do with the 8 figures Red Hat spend to fund just
>> the Sugar-specific development too.
>>
>> Just never heard any official Fedora release describe as "doesn't run
>> completely on Ubuntu, some Red Hat magic sauce."
>>
>> -- bjs
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