[Debian-olpc-devel] measure activity on debian

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:18:01PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
>> On Montag, 11. Mai 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> SoaS is a distribution in its own right.  It is based on Fedora.
>>
>> well, that's true. but SoaS is also a concept, "Sugar on a Stick", 
>> which could be done with debian live (see live.debian.net) as well.
>
>Yes, Sugar on a stick is just a sugar 'spin' of Fedora wedged onto a 
>usb stick.
>
>It is a live cd with a couple of tweaks to allow the user to write to 
>their home directory on the USB stick.
>
>If anyone was so inclined, it would be pretty straight forward to do a 
>debian version.

Would a straight forward alternate implementation of the SoaS concept be 
equally treated by Sugar Labs as "the main encoraged method for sugar 
use"?

I suspect that the answer is "that depends on the quality of such 
implementation and of its similarity with that other implementation".

In other words, I sincerely doubt that in reality it is "straight 
forward".

As I have pointed out at Sugar Labs too, I strongly recommend that Sugar 
Labs treat SoaS as a distribution and treat it as such, with bug 
tracking etc. separate from Sugar itself.  That might help avoid 
misunderstandings like I consider this sidetracked discussion.


I am not against a multitude of distributions. Not at all.  But I find 
it important to call it what it really is.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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