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==Installation== | |||
While it is easy to find the download instructions, the non-GUI [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Variations|installation]] instructions are hard to find [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Variations#livecd-iso-to-disk_script][http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Variations#liveusb-creator_from_command_line_in_terminal]and I don't know where the GUI instructions are.[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation] --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 21:28, 4 June 2010 (EDT) | |||
==[[Sugar on a Stick/FAQ]]== | ==[[Sugar on a Stick/FAQ]]== | ||
See [[Sugar on a Stick/FAQ]] and [[Talk:Sugar on a Stick/FAQ]]. For older versions of this page, see [[/Archive]]. | See [[Sugar on a Stick/FAQ]] and [[Talk:Sugar on a Stick/FAQ]]. For older versions of this page, see [[/Archive]]. | ||
There's a lot going on in [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/019311.html this thread]; here is my attempt to summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, please correct me. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] | There's a lot going on in [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/019311.html this thread]; here is my attempt to summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, please correct me. Last updated by [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 04:14, 24 September 2009 (UTC) | ||
== What are we talking about? == | == What are we talking about? == | ||
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SoaS is a Linux-based, Sugar-running, delivered-on-a-thumbdrive distribution focused on customizability, deployability, and local support, and meant for 1-to-1 use in schools. | SoaS is a Linux-based, Sugar-running, delivered-on-a-thumbdrive distribution focused on customizability, deployability, and local support, and meant for 1-to-1 use in schools. | ||
The term is currently | The term is currently used colloquially to refer to several things: | ||
* the code, based on Fedora, that Sebastian has been working on (...for lack of a better descriptor) | * the code, based on Fedora, that Sebastian has been working on (...for lack of a better descriptor) | ||
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== Proposed next steps == | == Proposed next steps == | ||
=== | === Formalize what SL project status means for SoaS spins === | ||
SoaS development and Sugar platform development are two separate projects done by different groups; one for Sugar platform development and one for each SoaS spin. There is currently only one active SoaS spin, and it is the Fedora-based project being driven by Sebastian Dziallas, for a current grand total of 2 project groups; however, there may be other SoaS spins in the future. | |||
Exactly what it means to be a SL project is still an open question. | |||
# What are the criteria a SL project must meet (including requirements for ongoing engagement/contribution)? | |||
# How does something become a SL project? | |||
## Who determines whether a project meets these criteria? | |||
## How do they make that determination? | |||
## Is there a schedule and/or timeline for this determination? | |||
## How does someone initiate the process for requesting SL project status, and who can do so? | |||
## What happens if it is determined that a project does not meet these criteria? | |||
# How does a SL project become not a SL project, and for what reasons might this happen? | |||
# What benefits (mailing list, etc.) does a SL project get? | |||
# How can all of the above answers be amended if needed in the future? | |||
# What is the list of current projects that we are considering including in the initial "this is a SL project" approval round, and what do these projects have to do in order to be approved for the criteria? | |||
Who decides: | Who decides: | ||
These decisions need to ultimately be ratified by SLOBs. It's been suggested that Sebastian's Fedora-based SoaS spin be the test case for the first "SL project," so it makes sense to start out on the SoaS mailing list to come up with a set of proposed answers to these questions that will work for the projects themselves, then ask SLOBs to formalize them (with more discussion/modification if need be). | |||
=== Determine what "Sugar on a Stick" refers to === | === Determine what "Sugar on a Stick" refers to === | ||
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Who decides: | Who decides: | ||
A decision panel convened by the SLOBs (the latter is happening now), with strong input from both the current "SoaS" team and the Marketing team. See [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/019548.html this mailing list thread calling for discussion panel volunteers]. | |||
== | == Completed next steps == | ||
=== Make a SoaS mailing list === | |||
The list was created at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas after reaching consensus on the ticket requesting that the list be created, http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1419. | |||
From the list description: "This list is intended for discussions related to the development of Sugar on a Stick, which is located in the Sugar Labs wiki. User feedback can also be directed to feedback@sugarlabs.org and the IAEP (It's An Education Project) mailing list. Upstream development and discussions of Sugar take place in the sugar-devel mailing list. Other LiveUSB Sugar projects are invited and very welcome to share their concepts, ideas and thoughts on-list, too." Also see the [http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090923_1558.html log from the informal IRC discussion about mailing list creation] for more context. | |||
This is | |||
== Side questions == | == Side questions == | ||
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Both decisions would be made by SLOBs or a decision panel convened by the SLOBs. This issue is a peripheral one that isn't particularly within the scope of the current SoaS discussions in this thread, though. | Both decisions would be made by SLOBs or a decision panel convened by the SLOBs. This issue is a peripheral one that isn't particularly within the scope of the current SoaS discussions in this thread, though. | ||
==Soas-v7 Release Announcement== | |||
[SoaS] ANNOUNCE: Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong) | |||
pbrobinson 06/05/2012 | |||
I'd like to announce Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong) | |||
There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of | |||
communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us | |||
new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all | |||
the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS | |||
v7 is based. | |||
Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release | |||
including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar | |||
development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been | |||
done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse | |||
and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add | |||
to. | |||
Some of the key new features of this release include: | |||
- Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1] | |||
- Massively improved x86 Mac support [2] | |||
- Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other | |||
improvements [3] | |||
- Return of Browse, now based on WebKit | |||
- The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks | |||
- Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel | |||
- An increase in default Activities by nearly 50% | |||
Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases | |||
including but not limited to: | |||
- Abacus 35 (GTK3) | |||
- Record 95 | |||
- Physics 9 | |||
- TurtleArt 138 | |||
Newly added Activities include: | |||
- Browse 137 (GTK3) | |||
- Countries 33 | |||
- Finance 7 | |||
- GetBooks 11 | |||
- Help 14 (GTK3) | |||
- Infoslicer 14 | |||
- Labyrinth 12 | |||
- Paint 43 | |||
- Portfolio 21 | |||
- Read 99 (GTK3) | |||
There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora repositories. | |||
The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases | |||
by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native | |||
Australian bushfood. | |||
You can download the release from the following link. | |||
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ | |||
It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and | |||
is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora | |||
Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package | |||
tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum | |||
install @sugar-desktop". | |||
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList | |||
[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html | |||
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes | |||
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum | |||
_______________________________________________ | |||
SoaS mailing list | |||
SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org | |||
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas | |||
== Side notes == | == Side notes == | ||
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Feedback from a first grade teacher: What teachers care about: (1) Is it friendly? (2) Is it consistent? (3) Can the effort needed to maintain it be sustained? What they don't care about: (1) What group "runs" it? (2) Who owns the trademark? (3) What bleeding-edge features are being developed now for a future release? (3) What is the underlying technology? What would reassure them: (1) Peer support. (2) Seeing it in action, so they can create a "mental paradigm" category for something like Sugar/SoaS. | Feedback from a first grade teacher: What teachers care about: (1) Is it friendly? (2) Is it consistent? (3) Can the effort needed to maintain it be sustained? What they don't care about: (1) What group "runs" it? (2) Who owns the trademark? (3) What bleeding-edge features are being developed now for a future release? (3) What is the underlying technology? What would reassure them: (1) Peer support. (2) Seeing it in action, so they can create a "mental paradigm" category for something like Sugar/SoaS. | ||
Added Notes: | |||
*1.) F12(rawhide) and opensuse-edu now distribute a dual mode live.iso of Sugar-Desktop which boots into sugar as a CD or can be used to dd write to a USB/SD "stick". (persistence is a work in progress on these)[[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#Dual_Mode_.iso_Files]] [[http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/04/28/whats-behind-lzma-compressed-livecds/]][[http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=kiwi;a=blob;f=modules/KIWILinuxRC.sh;h=6591ab5125df730800bf3dc3dde9ce875183568c;hb=HEAD]][[http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/education/]] | |||
*2.) Sugar from multiple distros is available[[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/]] as a VMPlayer or Virtualbox "Appliance" which can be stored on a USB/SD "Stick" and thus is transportable with (persistence) from PC to PC. | |||
*3.) There are "full installs"(real file structure-not a live system) of: Sugar, Sugar+Gnome, Sugar+KDE on larger(4GB+) USB Sticks which are available for download [[http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/]]in compressed form that can be written to a bootable USB/SD with a dd command in several minutes. | |||
Added Notes: | |||
from Soas lists: | |||
Rubén Rodríguez Pérez | |||
* Trisquel-Edu (Live USB) | |||
* Trisquel-Sugar (Announced 09/28/2009) | |||
I will further explain the differences: | |||
We are including the Sugar packages in both our 2.2 LTS version (where | |||
you can find the Trisquel Edu edition), and in our new 3.0 STS version. | |||
All our live Sugar images will be based on the STS one, as it will | |||
provide better hardware support. | |||
Trisquel Edu, which is a GNOME based educational system, can run Sugar | |||
as an alternate environment, or serve it via LTSP. The Edu edition (like | |||
the Pro one) is only available in the 2.2 LTS version of the distro. It | |||
will be the recommended version for large Sugar-on-Trisquel deployments. | |||
== Development notes == | |||
Processes we should document. | |||
* [http://me.etin.gs/sugar/sugar.log.20100317_1245.html how to make a kickstart file] | |||
: How to make a remix:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Instructions | |||
* [http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100319_0950.html minimal kickstart file] | |||
* Package selection: timeline and criteria. How does stuff make it onto SoaS? | |||
== Some checksum hash(s) please == | |||
The following links are missing the SoaS SHA256 checksum/hashs | |||
http://fedora-spins.c3sl.ufpr.br/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/i686/Fedora-15-i686-Spins-CHECKSUM | |||
http://fedora-spins.c3sl.ufpr.br/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-15-x86_64-Spins-CHECKSUM | |||
Could someone post a png or gif of the hash for these files here since fedora won't update this until F16(Verne) is out. | |||
--[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 11:29, 18 October 2011 (EDT) | |||
:sha256sum 95650ec1257670e44466e75059ff8b05f636cd78658a025ae52c8992145f778c Fedora-15-i686-Live-SoaS.iso | |||
:md5sum 67dc6fe4625f61d9d51f89c082f3c9c3 Fedora-15-i686-Live-SoaS.iso | |||
:sha256sum aa18f9dae1fe8d9bde47a45fefd19f2127dfc1001de3c1f76fbc1f85ec576e0d Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso | |||
:md5sum db209baffdef41b7ca029b6e224ed7d1 Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso | |||
:: from my copies --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 12:30, 18 October 2011 (EDT) |