Features/SoaS Remixability

Summary

Build Your Own Soas Remix and Share your Custom.ks File on the wiki.

Owner

• Name: [| Thomas Gilliard]

• Email: satellit <at> bendbroadband <dot> com

Current status

• Targeted release: (Soas v4)
• Last updated: (07/27/2010)
• Percentage of completion: 100%

• Content of Instructions on how to build and required format for naming of remixes needs to be discussed and decided

These instructions can be decided on lists and the instructions edited appropriately.

Detailed Description

• Simplified instructions on how to compose or edit a kickstart file for Soas, how to install livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts, and how to enter the commands to create a custom remix.
• Request for feedback and e-mail with attachment of their working .ks file which we will post on the wiki. This will allow others to study and learn how to do it:

we plan to have a listing of Customized kickstart.files to share on the WIKI

We will list them here so others can try them out and learn from them.

Please send e-mail to:

To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: [Custom KS]-{Name of your kickstart file}
*Attach your Custom.ks file*
PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION in e-mail:
Sugar Version                    :                  
(0.82; 0.86.x; 0.88.x; 0.89.x)
Country / Deployment             :                      
Build system fedora version      :                    
Number of USB's in Deployment    :  
PC/Netbooks used                 :             
Notes and Any Bug No's submitted :

• Posted links to a Catalog of prebuilt remix.iso's, with a description of their use and contents, allows less skilled users to use them.

Benefit to Sugar

• Allows for great flexibility to customize Soas-v4 for Deployments and individuals.

• add/delete desired applications to standard set on .iso

• Targeted uses:

Multiple Language versions (Including EU Languages?)

e-book reader

Older students

Games

• Shared kickstart files e-mailed to SOAS and posted to wiki allow others to learn how to make a .ks file and try various remixes.
• Posted links to a Catalog of prebuilt remix.iso's, with a description of their use and contents, allows less skilled users to use them.

Scope

It works now. Instructions are written and method is tested.

all entries labled xxxx-remix were built using these instructions

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Soas_V4/Install_Test_Table#Test_results

All a User has to do to implement this is to install livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts in their version of fedora:

su -c 'yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts'

• And follow provided instructions.

UI Design

N/A

How To Test

Sugar_Creation_Kit#Build_Your_Own_Remix_-.28not_included_on_SCK.DVD.29

Follow these instructions and burn resulting .iso to CD ant test it by Booting it.

User Experience

Wider choices for users of Soas-v4 due to ability to Customize.

Dependencies

None that I know of.

Contingency Plan

Not Needed

Documentation

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Build_Your_Own_Remix_-.28not_included_on_SCK.DVD.29

Release Notes

None Needed

Comments and Discussion

• See discussion tab for this feature

• 07/27/2010 Some nice comments from lists:

Caryl Bigenho:

Hi Tom, I love this idea! (I hope it would also include easier SoaS creation on the Mac.) When I lent some of my "Roadshow" library machines to the University of Montana education department to help them prep for a science project, I downloaded a lot of stuff not already there (eg Bridge, Star Chart, etc), then put only them and the essentials (eg Browse, Write, Record) in the favorites and hid all the rest. It would be really nice to be able to create sticks with special focus like this for targeted projects. Caryl

Christoph Derndorfer:

wow, this looks like a truly amazing project!

Can't wait to give it a spin at one point or another... :-)

Cheers, Christoph