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This page is updated each week (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list and blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to walter at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. An '''archive''' of this digest is available '''[[Sugar Labs/Current Events/Archive|here]]'''.

This page is updated each week (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The digest is also sent to the community-news at sugarlabs.org list and blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to walter at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. An '''archive''' of this digest is available '''[[Sugar Labs/Current Events/Archive|here]]'''.

=== Sugar Digest ===

=== Sugar Digest ===

1. Award-winning: We can start referring to Sugar as "award-winning software." It earned a silver medal in the International Design Excellence Awards '08 and was undoubtedly one of the reasons the OLPC XO-1 laptop won the gold medal (Please see [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772 IDEA_Awards]).

1. Award-winning: We can start referring to Sugar as "award-winning software." It earned a silver medal in the International Design Excellence Awards '08 and was undoubtedly one of the reasons the OLPC XO-1 laptop won the gold medal (Please see [http://www.idsa.org/IDEA_Awards/gallery/2008/award_details.asp?ID=772 IDEA_Awards]).

10. Sugar appliance: Bryan Kearney has built a Sugar appliance based upon the Thincrust toolkit (Please see [http://www.thincrust.net Thincrust] where you'll learn that "an appliance is a pre-configured application and operating system bundle"). The directions for using the appliance are:

10. Sugar appliance: Bryan Kearney has built a Sugar appliance based upon the Thincrust toolkit (Please see [http://www.thincrust.net Thincrust] where you'll learn that "an appliance is a pre-configured application and operating system bundle"). The directions for using the appliance are:

# Download http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz

# Download http://sugar.s3.amazonaws.com/sugarAppliance.tar.gz

# Untar and unzip it

# Unzip and untar it

# Run virt-image sugar.xml

# Run virt-image sugar.xml

# At the login, select "Autologin"

# At the login, select "Autologin"