Difference between revisions of "Sugar on a Stick/Hardware"

Revision as of 16:12, 23 April 2009

A SoaS Hardware Effort

This attempt has been started shortly after the SoaS beta release on April 22nd and is focussed on tracking hardware compatibility with newer SoaS versions.

What's this about

The overall goal of this effort is to gather information about issues with various hardware configurations using SoaS. So if you just came across an issue or want to help us by providing your hardware specs, please follow these instructions.

What we're doing

We're using the Smolt project to keep information about the various systems. Smolt is a hardware profiler and has been introduced with Fedora 7. Since then, also openSUSE has joined the project. We're working on creating an identifier for SoaS in the Smolt database.

Smolt basically helps you to submit your hardware information to a place, where people like us developers can check them out. Smolt development is hosted here and if you're worried about your privacy, you can have a look at Smolt's privacy policy here. Note that you can remove your hardware information at any time - instructions for this are also listed below!

Next Steps

So. What's next? Here're the instructions:

First of all, you'll need to download SoaS, which already includes Smolt. Please use the latest snapshot and not the beta for this! Here's the direct link: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200906221314.iso
That's already it. Now you're ready to submit your hardware specs. For this, just call (as root): smoltSendProfile
It will ask you again if you're sure and will also give you a link to your profile and an admin password then. Please keep those!

That's already it - thanks for submitting your information! If you want to provide your hardware profile with a bug report on dev.sl.o, you can also just add your link there. Note that with your admin password, you'll be also able to rate your experience with SoaS regarding the hardware support on your profile page.

What if you want to remove your information?

Just type in the terminal (again as root): smoltDeleteProfile

Upcoming Improvements

We're working on getting Smolt integrated in a Sugar Activity to ease the process of submitting the information.

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 == A SoaS Hardware Effort ==
-This attempt has been started shortly after the SoaS beta release on April 22nd and is focussed on tracking hardware compatibility with newer SoaS versions here.
+This attempt has been started shortly after the SoaS beta release on April 22nd and is focussed on tracking hardware compatibility with newer SoaS versions.
 === What's this about ===
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 === What we're doing ===
-We're trying to use the [http://www.smolts.org Smolt] project to keep information about the various systems. Smolt is a hardware profiler and has been introduced with [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Smolt Fedora 7]. Since then, also openSUSE has joined the project. We're working on creating an identifier for SoaS in the Smolt database.
+We're using the [http://www.smolts.org Smolt] project to keep information about the various systems. Smolt is a hardware profiler and has been introduced with [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Smolt Fedora 7]. Since then, also openSUSE has joined the project. We're working on creating an identifier for SoaS in the Smolt database.
-Smolt basically helps you to submit your hardware information to a place, where people like us developers can check them out, for example if you encounter any issues. Smolt development is hosted [https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/ here] and if you're worried about your privacy, you can have a look at Smolt's [https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/wiki/PrivacyPolicy privacy policy] here. Note that you can remove your hardware information at any time - instructions for this are also listed below!
+Smolt basically helps you to submit your hardware information to a place, where people like us developers can check them out. Smolt development is hosted [https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/ here] and if you're worried about your privacy, you can have a look at Smolt's [https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/wiki/PrivacyPolicy privacy policy] here. Note that you can remove your hardware information at any time - instructions for this are also listed below!
 == Next Steps ==
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 * That's already it. Now you're ready to submit your hardware specs. For this, just call (as root): ''smoltSendProfile''
 * It will ask you again if you're sure and will also give you a link to your profile and an admin password then. Please keep those!
+That's already it - thanks for submitting your information! If you want to provide your hardware profile with a bug report on [http://dev.sugarlabs.org dev.sl.o], you can also just add your link there. Note that with your admin password, you'll be also able to rate your experience with SoaS regarding the hardware support on your profile page.
 What if you want to remove your information?
 * Just type in the terminal (again as root): ''smoltDeleteProfile''
-=== Help us! ===
-Now that you've a link to your hardware specs, what do you do with that? If you're interested in helping us with testing SoaS on various hardware configurations, please add yourself and the link to your smolt profile to the table below.
-{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
-|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
-| '''name''' || '''smolt'''
-|-
-| Sebastian Dziallas || http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_cf5334e9-3337-49cd-a7af-747b77bbdda1
-|-
-| add yourself here ||
-|}
-If you type your admin password in the window on your profile page, you'll be also able to rate your experience with SoaS regarding the hardware support.
 == Upcoming Improvements ==
 We're working on getting Smolt integrated in a Sugar Activity to ease the process of submitting the information.