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==Sugar on a Stick Beta - Release Notes==
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[[Category:Live USB]]
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==SoaS nightly builds==
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[https://www.happyassassin.net/nightlies.html Fedora nightly-composes page] - Look for the '''SoaS live''' section well down in the table.
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* See [[Fedora 35]], [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick]] for testing results.
  
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===Introduction===
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==Install, test, report==
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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.
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* See [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation]]
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**Note that with larger images one may need to adjust the overlay or home folder size in order to fit the installation onto a 1-GB USB device (for example, with soas-x86_64-20101004.16.iso (503 MB), {{Code|--home-size-mb 190}} was needed), otherwise, the filesystem will get corrupted during the creation of the home folder as the disc space is exhausted.
  
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=== What's New? ===
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* [[0.112/Testing|Sugar 0.112 Testing]]
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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 [[DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.84 | 0.84 release notes]]. The SoaS beta is based on the Fedora 11 beta freeze from 27 March 2009.
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* [[Sugar on a Stick QA]]
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* [[Sugar on a Stick/Bugs]]
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* [[BugSquad/Bug Report]]
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Furthermore, Soas includes the following additional activities:
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Let's simplify the base instructions and leave this sort of information on a troubleshooting page.
  
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* CartoonBuilder
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:* <code>--format --reset-mbr</code> are optional arguments for the shell script, but may be excluded to preserve the existing disc format and data. See [[olpc:How to Damage a FLASH Storage Device]] for a discussion of why you might want to try to keep your factory format on a flash storage device.  
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* Develop
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:*: [[Talk:Downloads]] and [[LiveOS image]] have more information on this and other installation options.
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* FlipSticks
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:* If you do use the format and reset master boot record arguments, you'll want to specify the target device name and not a partition, that is {{Code|/dev/sd'''?'''}} with no partition number, instead of {{Code|/dev/sd'''?'''1}} as in the example above used to specify an existing partition. ''As noted above, confirm your target disc device name&mdash;in this case, it is VERY DANGEROUS to your other discs if this is entered wrong, as the whole disc will be reformatted and a new master boot record written causing all previously written data on that disc to be lost.''  -->
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* FreeCell
 
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* InfoSlicer
 
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* IRC
 
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* JigsawPuzzle
 
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* Memorize
 
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* Moon
 
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* Poll
 
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* Speak
 
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* StoryBuilder
 
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* ViewSlides
 
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Interested users can download more activities from our library at [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ activities.sugarlabs.org].
 
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=== Requirements ===
 
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* a Linux or Windows machine to transfer the image to your USB key
 
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* the minimum required size of the USB memory stick is 1 GB
 
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=== The Purpose of the Beta Release ===
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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=== Filing Bug Reports ===
 
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For general feedback, just e-mail your thoughts and experiences to feedback@sugarlabs.org!
 
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If you believe that you have found a bug in a Sugar component or SoaS itself, please report it to the [http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs bug tracker].
 
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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 [http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Fedora's bug tracker].
 
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=== Known Issues ===
 
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* The beta release does not work under VMware Fusion. This will be fixed in an upcoming snapshot
 
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* No mouse pointer might appear on machines using VIA hardware {{Bug|703}}
 
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=== Get it ===
 
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Download the latest [http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-beta.iso soas-beta image] and use the [[Sugar_on_a_Stick#Create_Your_Stick | instructions]] to flash it onto a stick.
 

Latest revision as of 20:17, 15 June 2021


SoaS nightly builds

Fedora nightly-composes page - Look for the SoaS live section well down in the table.

Install, test, report

  • See Sugar on a Stick/Installation
    • Note that with larger images one may need to adjust the overlay or home folder size in order to fit the installation onto a 1-GB USB device (for example, with soas-x86_64-20101004.16.iso (503 MB), --home-size-mb 190 was needed), otherwise, the filesystem will get corrupted during the creation of the home folder as the disc space is exhausted.
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