Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Sebastian Dziallas schrieb:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> I have put together a sugar desktop appliance [1], but I am not very
>> familiar with the sugar desktop in order to adequately test it. I am
>> looking for anyone who is willing to take a few minutes and give it a
>> spin. The directions for xen/kvm are:
>>
>> 1) Download [1]
>> 2) Untar and unzip it
>> 3) run virt-image sugar.xml
>> 4) At the fedora login, select "Autologin"
>>
>> You are good to go. If you would like to build it yourself, you can
>> get build this with the appliance creator [2] using the kickstart
>> file [3].
>>
>> -- bk
>>
>> [1]
http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz
>> [2]
http://www.thincrust.net/tooling.html
>> [3]
http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugar.ks
>
> Yeah... great!
>
> If I got some spare time, I'll make sure to give it a try ;)
> It's just that my CPU isn't xen/kvm compatible, so I'll need to
> convert the applicane...
>
> By the way: This may be a very well start for a possible sugar-based
> spin. I'm going to dig a little bit deeper into it :)
Sorry if I'm ignorant or missing something here but what is "a desktop
appliance"?
Thanks,
Christoph
>
> Sebastian
Well, it's not a spin (so you're not going to download an ISO file or
something like this). Maybe one could define it as a virtual machine
coming with pre-configured content (this is, how I'd try to explain it
in few works, feel free to correct me :).
You could have a look at this one:
http://www.thincrust.org/
They've information on creating those appliances using Fedora tools.
Ahh... just came across their definition:
"An appliance is a pre-configured application and operating system
bundle. Configuration options are controlled for ease of use and
installation. "
Hope this helps,
Sebastian