User:Satellit
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G1G1 enthusiast. Bought 2 sets so I would have 2 to investigate presence service features. Have sold both and now using VMWorkstation 6.5 to follow developments.
Participation
preparing USB and SD cards for my EeePC900
- Helped test Soas1 and Soas2 on USB and SD before Vt Conference. (04/06-07/2009.)
Contributing to VMWare page on wiki
- Detailing making USB/SD Boot sticks with VMPlayer installed
- Making VMPlayer Appliances
- Testing VMPlayer on various Operating Systems
Testing new Builds of sugarSUSE
- Testing builds .iso and vmx files using VMWorkstation 6.5.2
- Installing USB.raw files of sugarSUSE on various size USB and SD cards(May-June 2009)
Testing of Various Installation methods for Live and real file systems on USB/SD/HD for Sugar
- Tests of Collaboration for activities
- Evaluation of Activities Compatibility for various Soas versions.
- Downloading most all of ASLO .xo files to a single directory
- Creating Open Office spreadsheet indexed by activity number, and name, showing this Compatability
- editing the ASLO listings to reflect this usability.
Sugar Creation Kit
- Gateway to information on Sugar-on a Stick (SoaS) and Sugar in many distributions.
- Tutorials on how to use and deploy sugar.
- Useful listing of Information for the user.
- Use to Download the elements you need and burn to your own Customized DVD to save Downloading all of the above SCK DVD.iso
SCK DVD
- For "sneakernet" and behind firewall installs.
- Only requires 1 download, can be copied locally for a complete build
- Contains .iso files and instructions needed to create Soas USB's plus a
- majority of the .xo files from ASLO for installing activities by drag-drop into the sugar Journal.
ASLOxo-6.3 DVD
- Contains over 500 activity.xo files
- Updated: Added new activities from the sugar-devel list up to: 01/21/2012
- To be downloaded and burned to a DVD then transferred to a USB stick
- Installed by drag drop to sugar-journal in a running sugar entity
- For "sneakernet" and behind firewall installs.
Writing pages on deja-dup backup for Soas Sticks
Current Projects
- updated Feb 13 2011
- Introduction to Mirabelle:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_Creation_Kit
- Sugar Creation Kit DVD and live DVD:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit
Testing
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table#Activity_Test_Results
- Tried to test Activity .xo files in different versions of sugar on Soas, installed, and on XO-1
- Testing on new versions of activity.xo's done as announced on lists
- Tried to test Activity .xo files in different versions of sugar on Soas, installed, and on XO-1
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Soas_V4/Install_Test_Table
- Reconstituted test table into editable Test Matrix http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Test_Matrix
- Testing done on a daily basis
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Dextrose2_testing_with_a_loaned_XO-1.5
- Started 01/23/2011 waiting for approval on Feb 11 2011 in #olpc-meeting 1400EST
Features for Soas v4
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html (Approved)
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/Remixability (editing)
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/SugarCreationStation An install CD (to HD) with all the features needed to make soas-remixes (Ideas)
- Created Custom Remixes with Information on desktop ready to install with zyx-liveinstaller but ran into a problem: File structure on HD created with zyx-liveinstaller fills up / and quits 70% way thru a build. I have contacted dmc Douglas McClendon to find out why.
Build and upload Virtual Appliances for Virtual box and VMPlayer
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files updated through Feb 13, 2011
- Have Soas-v3 Mirabelle and Soas v2-Blueberry available in both versions.
- Helped Walter on this section: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar#Virtual_Machines_on_all_platforms
- added section on Virtualization to Sugar Creation Kit wiki page.http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#QEMU_Virtualization with Virtualbox and VMplayer sections below it.
Test and Build Virtualbox Appliances with MacBook Air
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Prebuilt_Virtualbox_Appliances
Use my G1G1 XO-1 and a Loaned XO-1.5 to help test Dextrose-2 for Bernie
- Application approved on Feb 11, 2011 to get a 1 yr loan of a XO-1.5 from OLPC
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Dextrose2_testing_with_a_loaned_XO-1.5
- Hope to get it soon (Subject to availability)
I think the migration from the XO to these portable booting Memory sticks, which work on many Platforms is very exciting! Congratulations to all of the hard working people working on this Project.....
Live in Bend, OR. Retired
Hobbies: Computers, Road and Mountain Biking,Kayaking,Telemark Skiing.