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;Brief explanation: The newer Sugar builds have performance issues on some old hardware with limited memory. This is keeping some Sugar deployments from upgrading. This project is to look into the performance issues and tune Sugar for low-memory devices.
;Brief explanation: The newer Sugar builds have performance issues on some old hardware with limited memory. This is keeping some Sugar deployments from upgrading. This project is to look into the performance issues and tune Sugar for low-memory devices.
;Expected results: build suitable for running on OLPC XO-1 hardware
;Expected results: build suitable for running on OLPC XO-1 hardware
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The OLPC model is that each user has full possession and is the only user of an XO laptop. Therefore, Sugar assumes a 1-1 correspondence between users and XO serial numbers. However, Sugar is being used on other platforms (e.g. SOAS), where there is no obvious equivalent to a serial number. SOAS and James Cameron have created versions of Sugar which do not assume the user is 'olpc', but implement a standard username/password login system. The users storage is allocated to his/her home directory.
The OLPC model is that each user has full possession and is the only user of an XO laptop. Therefore, Sugar assumes a 1-1 correspondence between users and XO serial numbers. However, Sugar is being used on other platforms (e.g. SOAS), where there is no obvious equivalent to a serial number. SOAS and James Cameron [citation?] have created versions of Sugar which do not assume the user is 'olpc', but implement a standard username/password login system. The users storage is allocated to his/her home directory.
This task is to create a Sugar image for the XO which allows for user's to login by username and password. The basic task is to move the Activities folder to a common space so that only one copy is needed per system. This will support deployments where one set of laptops are shared across multiple classes (and users) or where there one laptop is shared between two students - one in a morning shift and the other in an afternoon shift.
This task is to create a Sugar image for the XO which allows for user's to login by username and password. The basic task is to move the Activities folder to a common space so that only one copy is needed per system. This will support deployments where one set of laptops are shared across multiple classes (and users) or where there one laptop is shared between two students - one in a morning shift and the other in an afternoon shift.