KanoOS software on official Ubuntu Mate 15.04 for the Raspberry PI 2 — Pong and Minecraft included
An experiment with a simple question: can the Kano educational experience run on top of a standard Ubuntu? The build relied on xsysroot to expand the official Ubuntu Mate ARM image size, install KanoOS software inside it via QEMU emulation, and generate a bootable 1.4GB image.
| Package | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Kano screenshot | working | |
| Kdesk | working | Needs customization (kano-desktop); blur and 3D screensaver working ok |
| Make Pong | working | |
| Kano Desktop | cannot install | System file clash, provided by another Ubuntu package |
| Make Minecraft | works | Screen-coordinate quirk; workspace slightly displaced |
| Terminal Quest | not working | Privileged TCP/IP port binding — permission denied |
"It should not work" is just a scoped task. Most of the core experience ran; the rest is documented for whoever picks up the torch. Download: UbuntuKanux-0.7 (md5 checksums preserved in the original archive). Era-typical nudges: sudo usermod -aG video YOU for Videocore access, and pip install slugify.
$ sudo curl -L https://github.com/skarbat/xsysroot/raw/master/xsysroot > /usr/bin/xsysroot $ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/xsysroot $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/xsysroot /usr/bin/xsysroot.py $ python -u build-image.py --build-all > build.log 2>&1 $ tail -f build.log
A pure laboratory project — mashing two OS philosophies onto one $35 board and documenting exactly where the seams showed. Much of the packaging machinery fed back into the main KanoOS production pipeline. All KanoOS public software is available on the KanoComputing GitHub.