User:Satellit

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.

Created Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD

• http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarCreationKit-123.iso Revised from comments on list
• For "sneakernet" and behind firewall installs.
• Only requires 1 download, can be copied locally for a complete build
• environment for SOAS.
• 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.

Created ASLOxo-4 DVD

• http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ASLO-4.iso

Mostly all of the Activity.xo files collected on a DVD.iso

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.

ASLOxo-5 DVD now available

http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ASLOxo-5.iso

http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/Contents_of_ASLOxo-5-iso.txt

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

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/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Build_Your_Own_Remix

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

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.