Sugar Creation Kit

Sugar Creation Kit DVD

Caution, this is a large file, at 3.8 GB

A complete DVD containing all the resources required to create all 3 versions of Sugar-on-a-Stick without requiring Internet access.

• SugarCreationKit-123.md5
• List of Contents

Uses:

• "sneakernet" or behind firewall at school.
• save bandwidth on servers.
• download once and distribute copies locally.

Sugar

Click this^ link

http://www.sugarlabs.org/

• Main sugarlabs introductory page

Get Sugar

Click this^ link

• Main Page to Download Sugar

Chat login with list of Channels and languages

Click this^ link to enter chat

• Join Sugar chat room for Help in English (with translations to Spanish on #sugar-es)
• Sugar chat room in Español (con traducción al Inglés de #sugar)

Pida ayuda a través de este canal #sugar-es Por favor, sea cortés y hacer sus preguntas.
Los voluntarios no pueden estar en línea todo el tiempo.
Sea paciente y permanecer conectado durante varios minutos para ver su respuest 

(utilizar la función de meeting para la traducción de estos artículos)

• Ask for help on these IRC channels by clicking on either of the above links (English or Spanish)

• NOTE: there are 4 channels on IRC: #sugar; #sugar-es; #sugar-it; #sugar-de

these channels which use MEETING to do translations between them.

to join enter this in command line of IRC: /join #sugar-it ; /join #sugar-de

Please be courteous and ask your questions.

Volunteers may not be on line all of the time. Be patient and stay connected for several minutes to see their answer.

Read the Floss Manuals first!

Most answers can be found in them

• More about Internet Relay Chat

Communication channels

Click this ^ link to access a page with all the means to communicate with Sugar Labs contributors and learners. It includes mailing lists, chat rooms, blogs, forums, Jabber networks, video, mail and telephone contacts.

Translator

• http://translate.sugarlabs.org/

the translation server for Sugarlabs

World Time Converter

• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Tiny URL

• http://ietherpad.com/
• http://tinyurl.com/

What is my IP

Find your IP address

• http://www.whatismyip.com/

ON-LINE VERSION

An expanded and enhanced listing of Items Included in the SugarCreationKit DVD ver 1.2.3 (see Above)

NOTE: There are newer and additional items on this web page that are not in the SCK DVD.iso

Use to Download the elements you need and burn to your own DVD to save Downloading all of the above SCK DVD.iso

Look below to the References section to see how to then convert your customized DVD to an .iso

Introduction to Sugar on a Stick

Read this first ^

Cautions with using Live USB's.pdf

• Sugar on a Stick/Installation/Variations#Cautions with using Live USB devices

How to Make a live USB.pdf:

• (instructions on how to make a live USB in Windows, GNU/Linux, and Intel Mac's) Sugar on a Stick/Installation#with Microsoft Windows
• WINDOWS: Sugar on a Stick/Windows

How to use Sugar on a Stick (SoaS)

1. Download
2. Install
3. Boot
4. Use

Burn a SoaS.iso to a CD and Boot with the resulting CD

Tests of Nightly Composes

Click link to open ^

Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/current.html

v6 Pineapple

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.TC2/Live/i686/Fedora-16-TC-i686-Live-SoaS.iso

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.TC2/Live/x86_64/Fedora-16-TC-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ Latest Soas images are here

v5 Coconut

click link for details ^

Final Version released 10/09/2011

v4 Mango Lassi

click link ^ for details

• download Mango Lassi (32-bit build)
• download Mango Lassi (64-bit build)

(Burn the .iso to a CD and Boot with the resulting CD)

• Activities Compatible with Mango Lassi & Mirabelle

Editable Listing of Activity Compatibility Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo Activity Test Table Please Use this wiki page to report your findings

v3 Mirabelle

Click link ^ to download the i686 .iso file

archive .iso files: i686, x86_64

v2 Blueberry

Click link ^ to download

v1 Strawberry

Click link ^ to download

Spins Archives

• Sugarlabs Archive to download Mirabelle and earlier SoaS versions
• Fedora 13 Spins Archive
• Fedora 14 Spins Archive
• Fedora 15 Spins Archive

(Burn the .iso to a CD and Boot with the resulting CD)

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

• *Testing of nightly spins Testing of Fedora 16 Nightly Composes (They do not usually work FOR TESTING ONLY)

Fedora Mirrors List

• http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora&country=global

Hardware Compatibility

EeePC: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc

key-to-press-to-access-bios-for-various-oem-and-computer-systems

smolt profiles:http://www.smolts.org/

http://smolts.org/smolt-wiki/Main_Page#Usage

SoaS Installation variations

Click Link ^

A collection of install methods

Category:Live USB

click link ^

A collection of links on how Live USB's are used in different distributions

click link ^

Notes on Live File Systems

LiveOS image

This page shares some information about the LiveOS design that helps Sugar on a Stick Learners make better use of their disc resources.

• Clarify writing ISO to USB

(Discussion on what is supported in fedora)

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/134

• Technical Discussion of Live USB's: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Data_Persistence

Limited Lifetime of Persistent Overlay

One very important note about using the "primary" persistent overlay for system changes is that due to the way it's currently implemented (as a LVM copy-on-write snapshot),
every single change to it (writes AND deletes) subtracts from its free space, so it will eventually be "used up" and your USB stick will no longer boot.
Because of these limitations, it is advisable to use the system-level persistence sparingly, for configuration changes and important security updates only.
For a truly persistent write-many (vs write-once) overlay, use the --home-size-mb option to create a home directory filesystem image for personal files.
Unlike the primary system overlay image, the home.img can be re-used and loop mounted outside of the liveusb environment.

Cautions with u3 USB sticks

• USB sticks with u3 partition will not boot with liveusb-creator

• How to remove hidden u3 partition

Linux: http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/

Windoz: Insert u3 Stick then click on tray icon for u3; select delete u3 partition

once it is done they work fine with liveusb-creator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3

Commercial source of SoaS-loaded media

• USB Flash Drives: -4gb-8gb-16gb-32gb (32 and 64-bit PC)

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-14-sugar-on-a-stick-4gb-usb-flash-drive-pc.html

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-14-sugar-on-a-stick-8gb-usb-flash-drive-pc.html

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-14-sugar-on-a-stick-16gb-usb-flash-drive-pc.html

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-14-sugar-on-a-stick-32gb-usb-flash-drive-pc.html

• SDHC Flash Cards: -2gb-4gb-8gb-16gb-32gb (32 and 64-bit PC) - see listing on site for more -

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/usb/fedora/fedora-14-sugar-on-a-stick-4gb-sdhc-flash-card-pc.html

WiFi

Wifi (Open FirmWare for WiFi networks): http://www.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/

http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/

http://www.h-node.com/wifi/view/en/2/BCM4311--rev-02-/1/1/Broadcom/undef/undef/undef/undef

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices

http://www.h-node.com/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/undef/undef

http://www.h-node.com/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/USB/undef

Mesh Networking: http://hothardware.com/News/Nonprofit-Group-Releases-Open-Source-WiFi-Software/

Community Distributions

click this link^for complete listing

Linux distributions where sugar is used:

Fedora F13 SoaS, F14 SoaS, f15-gnome3-shell and sugar0.92.1 How to install Sugar packages

Trisquel Tris 4.0 (Ubuntu 10.04LTS); Tris 4.5 (Ubuntu 10.10); Tris 4.5.1-sugar(Ubuntu 10.10); Sugar sweets 0.88.1 or 0.90.1

Mandriva 2010.2 Mandriva Sugar 0.88.0

Debian Debian 6 Sugar 0.88.1; 0.86; 0.84

Linux Mint Debian Debian 6 Sugar 0.88.1

Caixa Mágica based on Mandriva 2010.1 repositories Sugar 0.88.0

Ubuntu Sugar sweets 0.88.1 or 0.90.1

openSUSE

tuquito NEW Community Distribution based on Ubuntu 10.10

Sugar on a Stick (SoaS)   Download earlier SoaS versions

Sugar_Desktop_0.94_on_edubuntu_11.04 sugar 0.88 Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10; sugar 0.94 Edubuntu / Ubuntu 11.04 using Sweets_Distribution

ASLOxo-5.iso

• click above link ^
• (275.xo files and worldmap.pdf files)

New: Updated activities through 02/08/2011

• ASLOxo-5.iso 1.3 GB (DVD)
• View: Contents_of_ASLOxo-5-iso.txt 8.5K

• These can be copied to a 2-GB USB device and drag-­dropped into the Sugar Journal to install them.

Activities

• click above link ^
• listing: Activities Descriptions and Developer Pages
• OLPC listings: Activities
• 11.3.0 State of activities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/11.3.0/Activities#State_of_Activities
• OLPC AU: Activities_OLPCAU_10.1.3
• Recursos_en_espanol Los siguientes recursos han sido creados por personal de distintos deployments de America Latina y otros colaboradores.

Tam Tam Resources

click this link^

Materials for teachers of Tam Tam Suite

Etoys-116 Soasv5 RC3 Error Fix

presence-service is obsolete, but etoys still uses it and nothing else. No idea why it no longer runs.
Because PS does not find the buddy icon file. If I do
    touch ~/.sugar/default/buddy-icon.jpg
then Etoys starts fine. - Bert -

File Share

• FileShare

FileShare is an activity that allows the user to share files from their journal.

Note small files can be posted to sites like pastebin for sharing also

logo

• http://logoworks.wikispaces.com/

surf browser

alternate to sugar-browse

Included in latest f15 sugar 0.92.1 as the main web browser

Works in situations where sugar-browse will not start

• Download: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo

• git: http://git.sugarlabs.org/surf

Firefox/sharemenot

• http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons 
(such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button)
embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them.

MIT license

DVD covers; artwork & screenshots

• sugarlabs_SoaS-Creation-Kit_avery_cd_label_2up.pdf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarlabs_SoaS-Creation-Kit_avery_cd_label_2up_Mirabelle.pdf
• sugarlabs_Sugar-demo_avery_cd_label_2up.pdf http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarlabs_Sugar-demo_avery_cd_label_2up_Mirabelle.pdf
• Flyer_englisch.pdf *http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Flyer_englisch.pdf (Poster-Sugar Learning Program; 2-sided with text from past Show)
• Booth_Banners Marketing Team/Booth Banners
• LinuxTag http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656470@N02/sets/72157620524327203/ SeanDaly
• Screen Shots Marketing Team/Screen Shots
• Marketing Team/T-Shirt nice collection of images
• Fedora 15 Gnome3-shell with sugar-emulator: Community/Distributions/Fedora#GnomeShell

Floss Manuals

Click this link ^

(Important Manuals on how to use Sugar Applications and Features)

READ THESE FIRST!

• Sugarlabs Download Page

(Local ARCHIVE of the.pdf files shown below:)

• Source Links:

Introduction to Sugar http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar

NEW:como-hacer-una-actividad-sugar

MakeYourOwnSugarActivities Internet Archive Publishing Quality

In PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Full Text. DjVu formats

MakeYourOwnSugarActivities-es with corrected index

What is Sugar http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/What_is_Sugar_28Oct08.pdf

Browse http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Browse_06Sep08.pdf

Chat http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Chat_09Sep08.pdf

Collaboration http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Collaboration_31Jan10.pdf

SugarCollaboration http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/SugarCollaboration

FunWithTheJournal http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Fun_with_the_journal_09Nov10.pdf

Linux Command Line http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Linux-command-line_16Apr09.pdf

ActivitiesGuideSugar-English http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Activitys_Guide-sugar_en_09Nov10.pdf

Record http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Record_06Sep08.pdf

The Terminal http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Terminal_06Sep08.pdf

Turtle Art http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/TurtleArt_06Sep08.pdf

Write http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Write_27Sep08.pdf

Reading_and_sugar: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Reading_and_sugar_28Sep10.pdf

Text to Speech: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/floss_manuals/Text_and_Speak_09Nov10.pdf

e-book resources:http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/

Sugar_manual

Nice wiki page:http://wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/Sugar_manual

Booki

• Sugarlabs Booki

click this link ^

(This is a site under construction)

Edward Cherlin wrote:
[IAEP] Fwd: New booki for replacing textbooks with OER 04/01/2011

Please take a look at

 http://booki.flossmanuals.net/

 a site for collaborative authoring and publishing of manuals for Open
 Source software. Sugar Labs has set up another trial instance of the
 same booki software for OER development. I am arranging for some
 further administrative changes so that we can begin to use it, and
 will then invite various interested persons and groups to try it out
 and to discuss what we might be able to do by combining this with
 Sugar and other education software.

Replacetextbooks

Booki User Guide

Support

Blog

Booki importing-a-book

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ FLOSS Manuals WRITE

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/xo Depreciated

Khan Academy videos in OGV format

click this link ^

Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content 04/05/2011

You can download around 1000 of the Khan Academy videos in OGV format
(playable on XO laptops) from Archive.org   Here's an English/Spanish
index of relevant categories
If you're skeptical or haven't seen his videos, his talk sparked a great
discussion about math education on Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307532

For more recent videos, including YouTube, there's this media guide:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MediaGuide

Regards,
Nick Doiron

• link:http://www.khanacademy.org/
• Review: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/all/1

Adobe Flash

a proprietary player for Flash media

• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash

Flash Player

needed for firefox viewing of Khan academy lectures

• http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Flash

Gnash

GNU Flash movie player and as a plugin to Browse is the default Flash player on the XO. It is the free software counterpart to the Adobe Flash player.

• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Gnash

Flash Video Replacer

• http://www.webgapps.org/add-ons/flashvideoreplacer/download-firefox

References

• How to make your own custom Sugar-Creation_Kit.iso file (How this DVD was converted to an .iso file)
  1. Collect, annotate and sort the files you want in a folder on your Desktop.
  2. Burn the contents of this folder to a CD or DVD.
  3. Use the following command in Terminal as the root user:

     dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Sugar-Creation-Kit.iso

  Sample output:

 dd if=/dev/sr0 of=Sugar-Creation-Kit.iso
 5555584+0 records in
 5555584+0 records out
 2844459008 bytes (2.8 GB) copied, 232.86 s, 12.2 MB/s

• the resulting .iso file can be sent over the internet or used to make copies by burning to a DVD

Guide to Gnome3_shell

Gnome3 release-notes

Gnome3.2 notes

f16 alpha features

Click these links ^

• Gnome IRC Channels

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeIrcChannels

Gnome3.2

Gnome-3-2-announcement

Comments on Gnome3-shell

pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds

Click this link ^

How To Sugarize a Program

Instructions on how to make a program appear in the (F3) Home view of Sugar as an icon

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/sugarize/wiki-sugarize.txt

Running Linux Applications Under Sugar

FSF-How to choose a license for your own work

Click this link ^

how-to-mount-and-access-files-in-an-iso-image-on-linux

Click this link ^

grub and grub2

Click this link ^

how to recover grub and grub2 after installing windows

Click this link ^

Download Methods

Click this link ^

There are many alternative methods to install Sugar. The options can be very confusing because of the technical details and features that may be unfamiliar.
This page begins to itemize some of the many options that are available for those interested in learning more about the possibilities.

The Undiscoverable

click this link ^ for more details and examples

(The Undiscoverable Features of Sugar)

Features and tips not easily discovered about using Sugar

HTMLDOC

• http://www.htmldoc.org/documentation.php/Introduction.html

HTMLDOC software, version 1.8.27. HTMLDOC converts Hyper-Text Markup Language ("HTML") input files
into indexed HTML, Adobe® PostScript®, or Adobe Portable Document Format ("PDF") files.

E-books

• Education Team/Creating textbooks
• Reading And Leading With One Laptop Per Child http://en.flossmanuals.net/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
• http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
• e-book reader:http://calibre-ebook.com/about

Graphic installers

Liveusb Creator

Click link above ^ for details

Fedora and Windows (BEST METHOD TO USE)

Note if graphical liveusb-creator program will not make a bootable USB from an .iso file:

(This can happen if the stick is formatted to fat16 on another PC with a different Operating System.)

Use terminal command :

liveusb-creator --reset-mbr

USB stick must be formatted fat16

• how to create and use liveusb-creator fedora:FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo fedora:How to create and use Live USB#Graphical Method - Windows or Fedora
• Liveusb-­creator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
• F14 version for windows released: http://lewk.org/blog/liveusb-creator-3.9.3.html 01/06/2011

ZyX-LiveInstaller

• Sugar on a Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback_disk_device

rpm http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/zyx-liveinstaller-0.2.4-1.noarch.rpm

UNetbootin

• unetbootin­windows­471.exe for windows
• unetbootin­linux­471
• UNetbootin
• (Advanced) UNetbootin ­Command line
• How to Make a 2GB Installer USB with UNetbootin

pendrivelinux

• usb-installs-from-linux How to Do it Information
• universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3 Windows
• boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux linux (Advanced)
• boot-a-usb-flash-drive-in-virtualbox VirtualBox

openSUSE Live USB stick

• openSUSE Live USB stick
• Downloads

Expert install methods

click this link ^ for more details and examples

• How to install to a 4GB USB using liveinst (ANACONDA) from SoaS

• Use livecd­-iso-to-disk script to write a live USB Sugar on a Stick/Linux, Fedora page

  Technical Details

Use "dd" command

click this link ^ for more details and examples. For ADVANCED USERS ONLY.

to make an install USB from a liveCD .iso file

• Also see: openSUSE dd to USB with persistence
• Great for netbooks

Use (live).iso and terminal to make bootable USB

Use to install to HD or USB without needing a DVD/CD ROM

Building a bootable Mac USB

Click above Link ^

(tested on a MacBook Air)

Boot Helper CD's

• MAC SoaS-3 Mirabelle Boot DISK

soas-3-boot-test.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)

Read Me First & Credits to Programmer

• MAC SoaS-4 Mango Lassi Boot DISK

soas-4-boot-test (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)

• rEFIt

rEFIt

burn a bootable rEFIt CD on Mac OS X Used to Boot live USB's in a Mac

rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.
You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp.
It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.

Backup and Restore

• Backup (Activity) http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4326
• Restore (Activity) http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4327

• Mirabelle backup (deja-­dup) Sugar on a Stick/deja-dup

QEMU Virtualization

click this link ^ for more details and examples

In Gnome terminal:

su
yum install @virtualization

Start (Graphical): Applications/System Tools/Virtual Machine Manager

• installs soas.iso files to VM HD (with liveinst command in terminal of running Virtual Machine)

BoxGrinder

• http://boxgrinder.org
• http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/

BoxGrinder creates appliances (also called images) from simple plain text Appliance Definition files.

• http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/boxgrinder-build-meta-appliance/
• http://boxgrinder.org/download/boxgrinder-build-meta-appliance/

VMware Player Virtualization

click this link ^ for more details and examples

Download VMware Player (free)

VMware Player Appliances

• VMware Player appliance of SoaS-v3-Mirabelle

Compressed in .zip file

Download

This appliance is ready to run "firstboot" (agree/user name/password/tz/etc)

sugarroot is the root password.

• VMware Player appliance Trisquel-3 (NEW) 01/05/2011

Compressed in .zip file

download

User=sugar

Password=sugaruser

• VMware Player appliance Trisquel-4+sugar (NEW) 01/05/2011

Compressed in .zip file

download

User=sugar

Password=sugaruser

• VMware Player appliance Sugar on a Stick v2 (Blueberry)

Read this first.

download

• VMware Player appliance of openSUSE-Sugar

Read this first.

download

networking help

how to use

VirtualBox Virtualization

click this link ^ for more details and examples

With VirtualBox^® one can run Sugar in a window on Microsoft Windows, Intel-based Apple Macintosh, or Linux host computers from a virtual machine (VM) window. VirtualBox overview

• VirtualBox
• A good solution for Macintosh computers

• VirtualBox downloads Windows/Linux/Intel Macs
• Oracle VirtualBox downloads (alternate link)
• Installing on Linux hosts Read this if VirtualBox does not install.
• VirtualBox on Mac OS X Hosts
• gnome3-shell in VirtualBox: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/virtualbox-408-released-with-gnome.html f15 & Ubuntu 11.04
• mount-usb-devices-in-virtualbox-with-ubuntu

replace OSE with Virtualbox and how to set up a USB

Trisquel41_sugar_installer.iso

• click above link ^ to download (1.1GB)
• This DVD.iso is a great way to "SneakerNet" distribute this VM Appliance

Revised 03/02/2011 to remove sugar identity

RECOMMENDED

• Contents of DVD:

Instructions and .vmdk/.ovf files to import

32bit-VirtualBox Installers (OSE) (Directory with install files for VirtualBox 4.0.4)
(Does not include Free for Personal Use licensed extension pack) - includes instructions on how to download for personal use.
ReadMeFirst_Install_Instructions.pdf  (Instructions-how to install VirtualBox and import appliance)
trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18.ovf
trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18-disk1.vmdk
UserManual.pdf (VirtualBox 4.0.4 User Manual-269 pages)

• Cleared of Sugar Learner identity. Starts on color selection screen (Click the <===(back) button to change the Learner name.)

• When making a new VM, to clear the Sugar Journal of old entries and to avoid identity conflicts among copies of the VM, enter the command rm ~ rf /.sugar in the Terminal activity. Then shutdown the VM. This will clear all Learner information on the VM and let you start with a fresh install. Skipping this will result in collisions in the Neighborhood view of the Jabber network between separate copies of the appliance. Verify the presence of the .sugar directory by entering ls -a in Terminal.
• When cloning a customized VM, in order to keep the Journal and installed .xo Activities, use rm ~/.sugar/default/owner.key* in the Sugar Terminal, and then shutdown the VM. This leaves the Journal entries and removes only the previous Learner's identity key files.
  

All Prebuilt VirtualBox Appliances

click this link ^ to see a complete list of available VirtualBox Appliances

Try the appliances listed below first.

they are listed with the Recommended version first and older ones below.

Trisquel-4.1-sugar

(click this ^ link for details)

RECOMMENDED

• Sugar Desktop ONLY

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Sugar sweets 0.88.1

• Community/Distributions/Trisquel

• download and import 2 files:
  1. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-Cloned-disk1.vmdk
  2. http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-Cloned.ovf

• Cleared of sugar identity; Starts on Color Selection Screen ( <===(back) to change/ customize name)

Sugar on a Stick-V5-Coconut

firstboot has not yet run; so a new user name and password will be set for the gdm login on startup for the first time

Built 10/10/2011 with Virtualbox 4.1.4 for OSX

How Built:

root=sugarroot

8-GB VirtualBox hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

download and import 2 files:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_Coconut_i686_CL-disk1.vmdk  548.8 MB
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas_Coconut_i686_CL.ovf          12.9 KB

Sugar on a Stick v3 Mirabelle

firstboot has not yet run; so a new user name and password will be set for the gdm login on startup for the first time

How Built:

root=sugarroot

8-GB VirtualBox hard disc

English and English keyboard

USA-Los Angeles (Pacific timezone)

download and import 2 files:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS-sugaruser.vmdk 533M
http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/VirtualBox/Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS-sugaruser.ovf   12K

• Note1:Use the latest version of Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2_10.8-64453 or later). Some appliances have multiple hard disc controllers and the earlier Sun VirtualBox 3.1 version does not support them.
• Note2: All appliances were built on a MacBook Air with Oracle VM VirtualBox (3.2.10-r66523) then tested on a Ubuntu installation on an Acer Aspire One Netbook imported into VirtualBox (3.2.10 r66523)
• Note3:Set ControlPanel/Frame "Edge" slider to far left for easier access to sugar-frame features
  

Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry

READ FIRST: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry_ovf_README_FIRST.txt

Download these three files:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry.vmdk
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry.ovf
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry.mf

Sugar Clone

customize or duplicate Live USB installations

(script files for making a customized Live USB installation self­-replicating)

• Sugar Clone­ Wiki Page Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone

Update: http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02044.html

Rebuild/Refresh a custom SoaS iso from a running stick

Possible Use Cases

(from Wiki Page)

Curriculum packaging

  1. A teacher wants to prepare a SoaS image with a custom set of installed Activity bundles or a Journal of Activity instances for an upcoming class term.
  2. The teacher modifies their current working image by adding or deleting Activity bundles from their Home view and adding or removing Journal entries with specific content
   (such as a Physics model template or Etoys project), even saving distributable ebooks, or bookmarks in Browse Activity instances that are named for specific sets of local web destinations
   (a class portal perhaps for deployments lacking Internet connectivity).
  3. The teacher scrubs out any personal passwords or other history that should not be shared in the new copies.
  4. A fresh or recycled USB stick is inserted into the computer running the customized SoaS image and the SugarClone script is executed. 

Full image backup or sharing

  1. A Learner has modified their environment, perhaps adding Activity bundles and prepared specific instances such as a Activities/Physics simulation.
  2. Their modifications include changes to their operating system installed through yum or RPM to obtain some new core functionality.
  3. The Learner wants to archive or share this image with friends or for a backup.
  4. Personal or private information is scrubbed from the Journal or Browse history and other potential stores.
  5. The User creates one or more Sugar Clones. 

This method of backup has the advantage that it copies Learner changes to the core operating system as well as the Journal. A LiveOS image using a separate persistent home folder could be partially cloned with either the operating system overlay or home folder without the other should that be desired.

Build Your Own Remix with Fedora (Advanced)

click this link ^ for more details and examples

Make your own Custom CD/DVD.iso with a customized kickstart file

• Links to Trisquel, Debian and Mandriva on how to remix Live CD's

http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/customizing-trisquel-iso

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Draklive

Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch

Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/Simple-CDD

Koji

(Very Advanced)

Koji is the software that builds RPM packages for the Fedora project

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji

PPC

• Community/Distributions/Ubuntu/PPC
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC

  Latest Fedora release for PPC is currently Fedora 12

Doing builds again for fedora 16

• IRC: #fedora-ppc on irc.freenode.net

Git

Click this ^ link

OLPC XO-1 and XO-1.5 links and Notes

click this link ^

ARM

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM

Fedora Sugar Bugs

• Must increase F15 RC1 netinstall Memory requirements
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=sugar&product=Fedora

Sugar Patches

http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/project/sugar/list/

Sugar Bugs

• Sugar on a Stick

Sugar on a Stick Bugs

Current Soas Bugs satellit

• SoaS-Sugar

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&groupdesc=1&group=milestone&component=SoaS&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=reporter&col=time&col=changetime (fgrose)

• 0.90-olpc

http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&keywords=~olpc-0.90 (pbrobinson)