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: [[wikipedia:Booting|Booting]] is short for bootstrapping, or the process a computer goes through to load the operating system software to get the computer running on that operating system copy.
 
: [[wikipedia:Booting|Booting]] is short for bootstrapping, or the process a computer goes through to load the operating system software to get the computer running on that operating system copy.
 
====Changing operating systems (temporarily)====
 
====Changing operating systems (temporarily)====
: Most computers have hardware (for example, central processing units, chips, disk drives, audio, video, and networking devices) that can work with other operating systems.  So a Microsoft Windows computer can be booted with a different operating system, like one of the GNU/Linux variations that Sugar is built on.
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: Most computers have hardware (for example, central processing units, chips, disk drives, audio, video, and networking devices) that can work with other [[wikipedia:Operating system|operating system]]s.  So a Microsoft Windows computer can be booted with a different operating system, like one of the GNU/Linux variations that Sugar is built on.
 
:: With ''Sugar on a Stick'', computers that normally run with Windows, Mac, or another operating system, can be booted from the plug-in USB/SD device, and so, run Sugar without interfering with the hard drive or subsequent operation of the computer.  Following shutdown of a Sugar session, the computer can be booted as before with no traces of Sugar left behind.
 
:: With ''Sugar on a Stick'', computers that normally run with Windows, Mac, or another operating system, can be booted from the plug-in USB/SD device, and so, run Sugar without interfering with the hard drive or subsequent operation of the computer.  Following shutdown of a Sugar session, the computer can be booted as before with no traces of Sugar left behind.
  

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