Category:Live USB

This page - and the notion that we should have a category for Live USB projects - is under discussion on the SoaS list as of this writing. This page will probably be changing rapidly - please don't take anything here as set in stone! Join the conversation on the mailing list if you would like to know more. Mchua 19:15, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

This is a directory of Live USB Sugar efforts so that developers interested in such things can see which ones are currently ongoing. Sugar Labs has worked most for both development and deployment with Sugar on a Stick. People are, of course, encouraged and free to work on whatever they would like!

Note: Each of these projects should probably have its own page marked with the Category:Live USB category, but for now here is a list.

• Sebastian Dziallas is calling the coming iteration of the project he is working on Sugar on a Stick, Blueberry [1]; the name of the overall project is Sugar on a Stick.
• Other spins?
  • openSUSE-Sugar-Live [2] (dd to USB/SD)+(experimental 2nd partition for persistence) [3]
  • openSUSE-Edu-live-Li-f-e (Server) [4] with Sugar (dd to 8GB USB/SD)
  • F11-Live-Edu [5] (shell script)
  • Trisquel-Edu [6] (Live USB) [7] Trisquel 2.2
  • Trisquel-Sugar [8] Download: [9] script for USB with persistence: [10] Trisequel 3.0 see notes
  • F12 (rawhide) education i386xxxxx [11] (dd to USB/SD)
  • Sugar Tree [12], [13]

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.) Sugar on a Stick/Linux/openSUSE, [14], [15], [16]
2. Sugar from multiple distros is available [17] as a VMware Player 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" (non-compressed file structure) of Sugar, Sugar+Gnome, and Sugar+KDE on larger (4-GB+) USB Sticks, which are available for download [18] in compressed form, which can be expanded and written to a bootable USB/SD device with a dd command in several minutes.

Added Notes: from Soas lists: Rubén Rodríguez Pérez

• Trisquel-Edu (Live USB)
• Trisquel-Sugar 3.0 RC (has usb-creator available as command in terminal for persistent USB)

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.