Sugar on a Stick/Beta

Sugar on a Stick Beta - Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar Labs offers ubiquitous access to the Sugar learning platform on a USB memory stick. The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to their personal Sugar experience on any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it is possible to store everything you need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (as small as 1GB). This USB device can boot into the Sugar learning platform on different computers at home, at school, or at an after school program, bypassing the software on the those computers. In fact, Sugar on a Stick will work even if the computer does not have a hard-drive. With Sugar on a Stick, the learning experience is the same on every computer and the child's data stays on the USB memory stick, so they are always at hand.

What's New?

Sugar on a Stick ships with the Version 0.84 of the Sugar Platform. For more details on the features please refer to the Sugar 0.84 release notes. The SoaS beta is based on the Fedora 11 beta freeze from 27 March 2009.

Furthermore, Soas includes the following additional activities:

• CartoonBuilder
• Develop
• FlipSticks
• FreeCell
• InfoSlicer
• IRC
• JigsawPuzzle
• JokeMachine
• Memorize
• Moon
• Poll
• SliderPuzzle
• Speak
• StoryBuilder
• ViewSlides

Interested users can download more activities from our library at activities.sugarlabs.org.

Requirements

• a Linux or Windows machine to transfer the image to your USB key
• the minimum required size of the USB memory stick is 1 GB

The Purpose of the Beta Release

A Soas Beta release is an installable, testable version of the code and features being developed for Sugar 0.84. Beta software has bugs, problems, and incomplete features. It is not likely to cause damage to your computer or data, but you should be aware that it could.

The Beta release makes Sugar available to the wider community. It is a critical step in the process of making a solid Soas release; you have an important role to play: testing. If something doesn't work, file a bug.

Filing Bug Reports

For general feedback, just e-mail your thoughts and experiences to feedback@sugarlabs.org!

If you believe that you have found a bug in a Sugar component or SoaS itself, please report it to the Sugar Labs bug tracker.

As this SoaS release is based on the Fedora 11 beta, issues, for example regarding the hardware support, might still occur. Please make sure to report these issues upstream and to check for known bugs in Fedora's bug tracker.

Known Issues

• The beta release does not work under VMware Fusion. This will be fixed in an upcoming snapshot
• No mouse pointer might appear on machines using VIA hardware #703

Get it

Download the latest soas-beta image and use the instructions to flash it onto a stick.