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,
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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
- 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
- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.x86_64-0.1.0-Build1.1.iso
GnomeShell
"GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience. It provides core interface functions like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a delightful and easy to use experience."
- 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:
- 1-) Browse-120; Chat70 (does not start)
- 2-)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 login
- 3-)How to show user pictures on the GDM LOGIN screen
- Click "my account" on the top panel lets me edit the picture, and
- adding a picture will show it on the GDM login screen.
- 4-)If you hold down Alt, a 'Shut Down' option appears in place of suspend
- 5-)the Shell simply always behaves so there's exactly one empty workspace.
So when you start a session you have one workspace. As soon as you run something it goes into that workspace and you get a second empty workspace. As soon as you put any app into that empty workspace, a new empty workspace is created. If you remove everything from any workspace, it will disappear, so there's still only one empty workspace at the bottom of the list. So, there's never any need to manually add a new workspace. Pretty neat system.
- 6-) I've just installed F15 alpha in a virtualbox machine and at the first boot I
get a gnome 3 error explaining that it can't be fully initialised because 3D is not supported. GNOME3 is not expected to work in virtualized environments where hardware accelerated graphics are not available.
- 7-)
From http://gnome3.org/faq.html ... The GNOME 3 desktop does require hardware accelerated graphics in order to provide a cutting-edge experience however, and the complete GNOME 3 experience will only be available on computers capable of this. Do not worry though: GNOME 3 will come complete with a fallback interface which will provide an excellent experience in the absence of hardware acceleration, and which incorporates many of the improvements that can be found in GNOME 3. ------------------------------------------- test Digest, Vol 85, Issue 60, Message: 7 It's kind of a definition issue. GNOME *Shell* requires acceleration. But technically GNOME 3 does not; the fallback interface is still considered to be 'GNOME 3'. So you do need acceleration to get the Shell interface that's the 'big new thing' in GNOME 3, but still, if you don't have acceleration and you get the fallback interface instead, what you're running is still GNOME 3. Just GNOME 3's fallback interface. Adam Williamson Message: 8 In any case, VBox with 3d accelleration enables and 128MB for video memory is not sufficient for GShell. (VBox 4.0.4) Message: 13 Also, on that last note, we should clarify that right now Shell doesn't work even in virtualized environments where accelerated graphics *are* available, e.g. VirtualBox with appropriate hardware and drivers. In theory it should be possible to make this work, but in practice it currently doesn't. So there's two angles we can approach this from; make Shell run with software GL, or fix up Shell to work with virtualized graphics acceleration passthrough. But it's not at all guaranteed that we'll manage either in time for f15.
Update Log
- 178 03/12? on install
- 28 3/15 (including alacarte update)
- ?- 3/16 Yum Update (including keychain)
- 49 3/18
Smolt profiles
- ACER ASPIRE ONE HD Install from booted dd USB of x86-64 .iso
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
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: