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| + | ==Sugar Spin== | ||
| + | :Project page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Spin | ||
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| + | With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugar Labs and is the desktop environment used on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD or Live USB! | ||
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| + | :Recent development spins: | ||
| + | ::http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/ | ||
'''Notes:''' Sebastian Dziallas reports that there is a new version of the Sugar Spin based on Fedora is available here: | '''Notes:''' Sebastian Dziallas reports that there is a new version of the Sugar Spin based on Fedora is available here: | ||
| − | * http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/olpc/0.82-2/i686/sugar-spin.iso | + | * http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/olpc/0.82-2/i686/sugar-spin.iso (17 December 2008) |
| − | + | You'll find several activities on the image including most notably: | |
* sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner | * sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner | ||
* sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword | * sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword | ||
| − | ... | + | ...along with several other activities, including Chat support. |
| − | The OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might be installed using | + | == Fedora OLPC == |
| − | ''yum install sugar-*'' | + | The Fedora OLPC SIG, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might later be installed using |
| − | + | ''yum install sugar-*''. | |
For more information on the new release, please refer to the announcement here: | For more information on the new release, please refer to the announcement here: | ||
Revision as of 17:22, 7 February 2009
Fedora
Sugar Spin
- Project page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_Spin
With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugar Labs and is the desktop environment used on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD or Live USB!
- Recent development spins:
Notes: Sebastian Dziallas reports that there is a new version of the Sugar Spin based on Fedora is available here:
- http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/olpc/0.82-2/i686/sugar-spin.iso (17 December 2008)
You'll find several activities on the image including most notably:
- sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
- sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
...along with several other activities, including Chat support.
Fedora OLPC
The Fedora OLPC SIG, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might later be installed using
yum install sugar-*.
For more information on the new release, please refer to the announcement here:
The SHA1 checksum is, if you're interested:
5f51daf59a303036858905c18a95c8270f19559d sugar-spin.is
USB Key
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:
The liveusb-creator still contains an old link, which is the reason why you'll need to download the spin manually until this gets fixed.
Thank you everybody, who made this possible!
Also
Marco wrote a quick script to generate a boot cd for a liveusb image with overlay. It can be useful on old systems which doesn't support boot from USB:
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/livecd-iso-to-boot.sh
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/boot.iso (for the latest sugar-spin.iso)