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Sugar on a Stick - Quandong

a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket

Sugar on a Stick v7 Quandong has been superseded by the ʻŌhelo ʻai release as of 15 January 2013. See Sugar on a Stick/Downloads for the most current version.

Quandong is the 7th version of Sugar on a Stick released 29 May 2012.

Quandong is the name of a native Australian fruit.

x86_64

i686

hashes to verify downloads

See these installation instructions.

What's new in Quandong

Sugar version 0.96.1 The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features more activities with new toolbars, activity duplication features, view source for the Sugar toolkit, and improved support for booting on Intel-based Apple computers.

More information about the 0.96.1 release of Sugar is available at 0.96/Notes and Fedora 17 Release Notes.

If installing to hard disk or USB drive with liveinst, look at Fedora 17 Common Bugs.

SoaS Release Announcement: 05 June 2012

Release Announcement by Peter Robinson:

There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS v7 is based.

Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add to.

Some of the key new features of this release include:

- Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1]

- Massively improved x86 Mac support [2]

- Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other improvements [3]

- Return of Browse, now based on WebKit

- The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks

- Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel

- An increase in default Activities by nearly 50%

Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases including but not limited to: - Abacus 35 (GTK3) - Record 95 - Physics 9 - TurtleArt 138

Newly added Activities include: - Browse 137 (GTK3) - Countries 33 - Finance 7 - GetBooks 11 - Help 14 (GTK3) - Infoslicer 14 - Labyrinth 12 - Paint 43 - Portfolio 21 - Read 99 (GTK3)

There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora repositories.

The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native Australian bushfood.

You can download the release from the following link.

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/

It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum install @sugar-desktop".

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList

[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html

[3] 0.96/Notes

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum

Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.

We realize that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments. Quandong now includes a set of teacher-tested Activities in the default image. The following links point the way to building alternative customizations.

Build Your Own Remix with Fedora
customization guide
Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone A quick, but less pristine, method of build customization
ASLO Activity Collection DVD full of ASLO xo activities to Drag Drop into Soas Journal from DVD for Individual customizations.

Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora Spin. Sugar on a Stick is recognized by the Fedora Project as an official Spin. These close ties with Fedora's release cycle and resources from their engineering and marketing teams extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream–downstream relationship.

Contributing to Sugar on a Stick

The team recognizes the need to continue to improve its release processes and engineering sustainability. New contributors are urged to get involved and help us move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment.

If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in December of 2012, please join our mailing list, review Sugar on a Stick, and visit Sugar on a Stick/Beta. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.

Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!

Release history

To better understand release history, previous release notes can be found here,

Sugar platform release version cycle: | 0.82 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.96 | 0.98 | 0.100 | 0.102 | 0.104 | 0.106 | 0.108 | 0.110 | 0.112 |

and further information on previous releases may be found here: Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap#Older versions of SoaS

QA

Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.

Thomas Gilliard did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go.

Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!

Much help was also provided by the team at #fedora-qa; freenode IRC

Virtual machines

Note: Page moved to

Sugar_on_a_Stick/Virtual_machines

Documentation

A new release of documentation should come out with each new release of SoaS (although resources have prevented this).

The Fedora-site documentation may not be an improvement over our Sugar Labs, ad hoc wiki documentation methods, as the tools needed to participate are more complicated, and the Spin page documentation is not open to editing. The Fedora Sugar on a Stick pages have not been edited since Mirabelle was released in May 2010.

The attempt to better support a small number of known, working, "how to set up SoaS", instructions has not yet been fulfilled.

Press coverage

Feel free to add links to press coverage you find about Quandong to this section.

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 :''a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket''
+{{Message|Sugar on a Stick v7 '''Quandong''' has been superseded by the '''[[Sugar on a Stick/ʻŌhelo ʻai|ʻŌhelo ʻai]]''' release as of '''15 January 2013'''. See [[Sugar on a Stick/Downloads]] for the most current version.}}
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-| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0;" |'''Quandong''' is the 7th version of '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''' to be released on '''May 29 2012'''.  Quandong is the name of a native [[wikipedia:Santalum_acuminatum|Australian fruit]].
+| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0;" |'''Quandong''' is the 7th version of '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''' released '''29 May 2012'''.
+Quandong is the name of a native [[wikipedia:Santalum_acuminatum|Australian fruit]].
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+|<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Download Mirabell.png|link=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/17/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso]]</span>
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-| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"|[[Sugar on a Stick/Pineapple/hashes |hashes to verify downloads]]
+| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"|[[Sugar on a Stick/Quandong/hashes| hashes to verify downloads]]
 See these [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation|installation instructions]].
 |}__TOC__
-== Release announcement ( Parts of the following needs to be Updated )==
-See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02315.html announcement post].
-<!-- We are proud to announce the availability of [[Sugar on a Stick]] v5 Coconut. More information about Sugar on a Stick, including download and installation details, will be available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/. -->
 === What's new in Quandong ===
@@ Line 30: / Line 29: @@
 '''Sugar version 0.96.1''' The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features more activities with new toolbars, activity duplication features, view source for the Sugar toolkit, and improved support for booting on Intel-based Apple computers.
-More information about the 0.96.1 release of Sugar is available at [[0.96/Notes]].
+More information about the 0.96.1 release of Sugar is available at [[0.96/Notes]] and  [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_Notes/ Fedora 17 Release Notes].
+* If installing to hard disk or USB drive with [[Tutorials/Installation/Install with liveinst|liveinst]], look at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs Fedora 17 Common Bugs].
+=====SoaS Release Announcement: 05 June 2012=====
+[http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02429.html Release Announcement by Peter Robinson]:
+There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of
+communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us
+new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all
+the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS
+v7 is based.
+Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release
+including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar
+development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been
+done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse
+and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add
+to.
-'''Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.''' Pineapple has a slightly larger Activity selection than its predecessor and has continued the trend of providing a few, better-tested Activities. We've realized that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments&mdash;instead, we've chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their classrooms. See:
+Some of the key new features of this release include:
+:- Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1]
+:- Massively improved x86 Mac support [2]
+:- Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other improvements [3]
+:- Return of Browse, now based on WebKit
+:- The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks
+:- Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel
+:- An increase in default Activities by nearly 50%
+Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases including but not limited to:
+- Abacus 35 (GTK3)
+- Record 95
+- Physics 9
+- TurtleArt 138
+Newly added Activities include:
+- Browse 137 (GTK3)
+- Countries 33
+- Finance 7
+- GetBooks 11
+- Help 14 (GTK3)
+- Infoslicer 14
+- Labyrinth 12
+- Paint 43
+- Portfolio 21
+- Read 99 (GTK3)
+There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora repositories.
+The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases
+by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native
+Australian bushfood.
+You can download the release from the following link.
+http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
+It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and
+is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora
+Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package
+tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum
+install @sugar-desktop".
+:[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
+:[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html
+:[3] [[0.96/Notes]]
+:[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum
+==='''Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.'''===
+We realize that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments. Quandong now includes a set of teacher-tested Activities in the default image. The following links point the way to building alternative customizations.
 #[[Build Your Own Remix with Fedora]]
 #[http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide customization guide]
@@ Line 38: / Line 104: @@
 #[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/ASLOxo ASLO Activity Collection] DVD full of ASLO xo activities to Drag Drop into Soas Journal from DVD for Individual customizations.
-'''Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora Spin.''' Since SoaS v3 Mirabelle, Sugar on a Stick has been recognized by the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] as an official [http://spins.fedoraproject.org Spin]. For the first time, SoaS Pineapple is going to be shipped on the Fedora Multi Spin DVD. This means we'll be shipping on the front a
+'''Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora Spin.''' Sugar on a Stick is recognized by the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] as an official [http://spins.fedoraproject.org Spin].  These close ties with Fedora's release cycle and resources from their engineering and marketing teams extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream&ndash;downstream relationship.
-number of computer magazines across Europe and likely elsewhere in the coming months. These close ties with Fedora's release cycle and resources from their engineering and marketing teams extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream&ndash;downstream relationship.
 === Contributing to Sugar on a Stick ===
-With v6 of Sugar on a Stick, the team recognizes the need to continue to improve its release processes and engineering sustainability. New contributors are urged to get involved and help us move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment.
+The team recognizes the need to continue to improve its release processes and engineering sustainability. New contributors are urged to get involved and help us move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment.
-If you'd like to contribute to the next version, [[Sugar on a Stick/v7|SoaS v7]], due for release in May of 2012, join our [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas mailing list] and visit '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]'''. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
+If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for [[fedora:Releases/18/Schedule|release]] in December of 2012, please join our [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas mailing list], review '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''', and visit '''[[Sugar on a Stick/Beta]]'''. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
 Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!
@@ Line 51: / Line 116: @@
 == Release history ==
-=== Introduction ===
+To better understand release history, previous release notes can be found here,
-This section is a recap of the events during the v5 Coconut release cycle of Sugar on a Stick.
-* SoaS v5 is based on Fedora 15, and was delayed. From the Fedora wiki,
-*: "The move to NetworkManager 0.9 came after the feature freeze, and the Sugar desktop wasn't accounted for in the scramble to get alternate desktop environments working with it." [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Retrospective#Could_have_been_better]
-=== Re-approved as a Fedora Spin ===
+{{Template:Platform Cycle Linkbar}}
-"[Spins are alternate versions of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and other customizations." --from http://spins.fedoraproject.org/about
+and further information on previous releases may be found here: [[Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap#Older versions of SoaS]]
-See the release notes for v3 and v4 for history on the transition to a Fedora Spin.
+<!-- === Feature process ===
-=== Feature process ===
+ The way features happen in Fedora is that early in the release process, developers propose features, and they are approved by a feature freeze date (which is before the alpha release). They have to meet certain criteria by certain deadlines - if they don't, they're dropped and not eligible for mention as features. Major features must be in and testable by Alpha; minor changes need to be in and testable by Beta, after Beta only bugfixes are allowed.
-* [[Features/Soas_V5/]]
-<!-- The way features happen in Fedora is that early in the release process, developers propose features, and they are approved by a feature freeze date (which is before the alpha release). They have to meet certain criteria by certain deadlines - if they don't, they're dropped and not eligible for mention as features. Major features must be in and testable by Alpha; minor changes need to be in and testable by Beta, after Beta only bugfixes are allowed.
 This feature process is not unique to Fedora. Feature processes are things that happen in basically every major FOSS project, and really in every major engineering project (even non-software) - it's how we systematically make sure we build something that's good and working.
@@ Line 76: / Line 132: @@
 Since SoaS relies on both Sugar and Fedora as upstreams, we rely on their feature processes - most SoaS features come from either Fedora features or Sugar features. (For reference, our main upstreams are Fedora, Sugar Labs (sugar-core), ASLO (Activities), GNOME, and Python.) For v5, we built the release using a lightweight feature process for SoaS that inherits from those two upstreams. -->
-=== QA ===
+== QA ==
-:Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.
+Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.
 :Thomas Gilliard did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go.
 :Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!
 :Much help was also provided by the team at #fedora-qa; freenode IRC
-=== Documentation ===
+== [[Sugar on a Stick/Quandong/Virtual machines|Virtual machines]] ==
+{{:Sugar on a Stick/Quandong/Virtual machines}}
+== Documentation ==
 <!-- We now have a [http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/ Customization Guide] and [http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/creation-kit/ Creation Kit] as official documentation on how to custom-build an image and burn a SoaS stick, respectively. -->
@@ Line 88: / Line 146: @@
 A new release of documentation should come out with each new release of SoaS (although resources have prevented this).
-The Fedora-site documentation may not be an improvement over our Sugar Labs, ad hoc wiki documentation methods, as the tools needed to participate are more complicated, and the Spin page documentation is not open to editing.  The Fedora Sugar on a Stick pages have not been edited since Mirabelle was released in May 2010.  The attempt to better support a small number of known, working, "how to set up SoaS", instructions has not yet been fulfilled.
+The Fedora-site documentation may not be an improvement over our Sugar Labs, ad hoc wiki documentation methods, as the tools needed to participate are more complicated, and the Spin page documentation is not open to editing.  The Fedora Sugar on a Stick pages have not been edited since Mirabelle was released in May 2010.
-=== Major accomplishments this release cycle ===
-* Expanded discussion with upstream Fedora especially Fedora QA team and the new AutoQA processes. Initial integration in the Fedora Desktop QA testing process with initial guidelines and test process created. This will be expanded in Fedora 15 for the SoaS v5 release.
+The attempt to better support a small number of known, working, "how to set up SoaS", instructions has not yet been fulfilled.
 == Press coverage ==
-Feel free to add links to press coverage you find about Coconut to this section.
+Feel free to add links to press coverage you find about Quandong to this section.