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http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso
 
http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso
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The image itself is already a few days old, and there will be a new one
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With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on the image including most notably...  
soonish – but I wanted to wait with a new release until we can get the
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sugar-browse activity into Fedora and that way on the spin, since this
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greatly improves the spin's usability.
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But that's not the main reason for this post: Inspired by an idea from
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* sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
Greg and thanks to help from Luke Macken, we've now a liveusb-creator
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* sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
build for Windows with support for the Sugar spin available here:
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http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip
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...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support.
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What does this mean? Well, you can now just run liveusb-creator on
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The OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might be installed using ''yum install sugar-*'' at a later time.
Windows and get that way the latest Sugar spin on your USB key, from
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which you can then boot (once your BIOS supports that).
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If you try it out and have any feedback, please make sure to come up
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The SHA1 checksum is, if you're interested:
with it.
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—Sebastian
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''f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d''  sugar-spin.iso
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What if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
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https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip
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'''Thank you everybody, who made this possible!'''
    
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