Difference between revisions of "Fedora"

Fedora 13

Available as a LiveCD/USB image, F13 Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle Spin - A Sugar-only environment within a LiveOS image.

The Sugar Learning Environment is packaged in Fedora 13.

From the System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software menu, search for Sugar.
Among all the packaged Activities select,

The emulator for the Sugar Learning Environment
sugar-emulator-0.88.1-1.fc13 (no arch)

and any or all of the Activities.

Sugar will be available in your Applications -> Education menu.

Fedora 14

Available as a LiveCD/USB image, F14 Sugar on a Stick Mango Lassi Spin - A Sugar-only environment within a LiveOS image.

Sugar Learning Environment packaged in F14 or F15

In root terminal:

yum groupinstall sugar*
yum install sugar-emulator

Sugar will run in a Xephyr window within your current environment. You will have full access to the Sugar features, and may even run multiple instances to simulate a local collaboration group. Later versions of Sugar require one emulator per logged in user (there can be more than one user running) Check this

Adjust the default window size for Sugar by editing the menu item for Sugar to
/usr/bin/sugar-emulator -i 1200x900

to match the XO reflective screen resolution

/usr/bin/sugar-emulator -i 832x624

approximates the display proportions of the XO laptops, closely matching the toolbar, for example.

/usr/bin/sugar-emulator -i 600x500

fits the screen for a 10-inch netbook

/usr/bin/sugar-emulator -f

full screen on netbook

You may also collaborate with others in the jabber.sugarlabs.org server Neighborhood (Press <F1> to see the Neighborhood view.)

Fedora 15 gnome3 with sugar 0.92.0

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dd if=gnome3_test_day_20110203/gnome3_test_20110203_i686.iso of=/dev/sd(x)

Note: dd to USB makes working non persistent USB that does installs and runs fine.

boots 2 GB USB on ACER ASPIRE ONE in gnome3 with wireless

Install to HD

Do update 178 packages

In terminal:

yum groupinstall sugar* --skip-broken
yum install sugar-emulator alacarte
alacarte
 properties of Education/Sugar "sugar-emulator -f"
   (-i600x500) for smaller window
 exit

Notes:

Browse-120; Chat70 (does not start)
to fix screensize in sugar-emulator:

terminal:
su -
(password)
gedit /usr/share/applications/sugar-emulator.desktop

edit line 6: Exec=sugar-emulator -f

save

Logout

Sugar on a Stick

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!

See our Sugar on a Stick page.

, Mango Lassi with Sugar 0.90.3 and Fedora 14 (Laughlin)
or, for brave pioneers, v5 alpha with Sugar 0.92 and Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

Make a custom Fedora image

Build Your Own Remix with Fedora

Fedora OLPC

The Fedora OLPC SIG, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might later be installed using

yum install sugar-*

Here's a video of the process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKmrtlyyCFo

CJB suggests: as root, run: yum -y groupinstall "Sugar Desktop Environment"

The command to run Sugar is as root otherwise you may get this behavior.

sugar-emulator

For more information on the new release, please refer to the announcement here:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00061.html

Mailing list

http://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc

Download Mirrors

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/i386/

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+* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha#Live_image
 * i686    http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome3_test_day_20110203/gnome3_test_20110203_i686.iso