On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:50 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:

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> On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:42 , Brad Fuller wrote:
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>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> What would be really helpful is some tutorial projects that are  
>>> downloaded right with the etoys installation. That is what we're  
>>> doing with the OLPC version, for which we also are working on  
>>> better language rendering support.
>>> The OLPC etoys version should run fine on any machine. But making  
>>> the example projects appear in the general projects list requires  
>>> some work, and making the font choices configurable (they are set  
>>> up for a 200 dpi screen now) would also be necessary. A plan of  
>>> action would be for someone to make a nice general etoys package  
>>> from that version:
>>>     http://etoys.laptop.org/src/etoys-image-and-pr.zip
>>> Or rather from the etoys-dev image which includes source files at
>>>     http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/
>>> We (VPRI hackers) can certainly assist with that, though our main  
>>> focus is the actual kid's machine right now.
>>
>> I did mention they could easily download OLPC etoys using yum. I  
>> will reiterate this fact. BTW, is there anything specific to FC5?  
>> That is, can other distros dnl from the repo and execute OLPC etoys?
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> I don't think there is nothing FC5 specific in there. You can run  
> Etoys outside of Sugar by typing "etoys" on the command line.

That should have been "I don't think there is anything". Or "I think  
there is nothing".

- Bert -