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=Vision of different ways the USB might work in the students environment=
=Vision of different ways the USB might work in the students environment=
USB based boot have and advantage because expands the Sugar experience home and to other computers outside the school.
* USB based boot have and advantage because expands the Sugar experience home and to other computers outside the school.
Thin Client type environments use fewer computers in a computer lab setting and save energy.
* Thin Client type environments use fewer computers in a computer lab setting and save energy.
Can we get the best of both worlds?
'Can we get the best of both worlds?'
This is a User Story about "Sasha" a fictional 2nd grander living in a fictional urban school district that has fully employed Sugar at all its elementary schools.
This is a User Story about "Sasha" a fictional 2nd grander living in a fictional urban school district that has fully employed Sugar at all its elementary schools.
Sasha can access Sugar from in a wide variety of settings. I will create a different location for each type of environment. The point of this User Story is to get feedback on which of these ideas are technically feasible, and whether they are worth doing.
Sasha can access Sugar from in a wide variety of settings. I will create a different location for each type of environment. The point of this User Story is to get feedback on which of these ideas are technically feasible, and whether they are worth doing.
Home: Sasha has a donated computer at home. The disk drive was removed. Sasha boots the home computer from the USB.
'Home': Sasha has a donated computer at home. The disk drive was removed. Sasha boots the home computer from the USB.
Grandma's House: Sasha also uses Grandma's computer. Grandma's computer does not allow the Bios to be set to boot from USB, or maybe Grandma just doesn't know how to do it, so Sasha keeps a CD there. To use Sugar Sasha put in the CD, plugs in the USB and turns on the computer. The boot starts with the CD, and then the CD tells the system to look on the USB for most of the files.
Grandma's House: Sasha also uses Grandma's computer. Grandma's computer does not allow the Bios to be set to boot from USB, or maybe Grandma just doesn't know how to do it, so Sasha keeps a CD there. To use Sugar Sasha put in the CD, plugs in the USB and turns on the computer. The boot starts with the CD, and then the CD tells the system to look on the USB for most of the files.