Supported systems

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Please note:
Development changes occur rapidly, and the documentation here lags the current state of systems development. For the latest information on any development project, visit their work sites.

See Sugar System Stack for a picture of the software stack.

Ways to run Sugar

Determine which of the various methods of running Sugar meet your needs:

Pre-installed Sugar:
Some computers come with Sugar pre-installed, most notably the OLPC XO-1 laptop.
Live CD / Live USB:
Suitable for trying Sugar without having to install any software on almost any computer—just boot Sugar off of a CD or USB drive. Note: When booting a Live CD, the Journal is not automatically saved on shutdown, because the boot media is readonly. All changes are lost upon shutdown or reboot. This is not a limitation for Live USB installations. See our Sugar on a Stick project page.
Install Sugar:
If you are running one of the currently supported distributions, you can install Sugar using your systems standard package manager, e.g., Synaptic, apt-get, or yum.

Make custom Fedora F11/F12 Sugar Install or Live DVD/CD's [1]
Emulator/Virtualizer:
QEMU, VirtualBox, or VMware let you run Sugar in an emulator or by virtualization on your computer—you'll need to install an emulator from which you launch Sugar and one of the Emulator image files.

Refer to the matrix below to find a Sugar solution that works for you.

Computer labs

Bill Kerr has written up instructions for trying Sugar in computer labs which run only Windows
(Please see [2].)

Caroline Meeks is developing a deployment model that only requires one USB stick per child. (Please see Sugar on a Stick.)

Matrix of Sugar solutions

There are many ways to run Sugar:

As a complete disk image on an existing machine;
As a session on a Linux system; or
As part of a complete hardware-software platform.

Technical considerations

A discussion of technical considerations regarding supported systems.

Starch

Starch is a complete disk image for Sugar.

Sucrose

Sucrose is the Sugar interface plus a set of demonstration activities. System maintainers should visit the Packaging Team page.

Sugar for various hardware systems

Since Sugar is now available on most major GNU/Linux distributions, it is possible to run Sugar almost any computer that can run GNU/Linux. We highlight some systems below. Please add your favorite to the list.

MacBook Air OSX 10.6.6 (Virtualbox 4.0.2)Emulator_image_files#VirtualBox VirtualBox runs on most hardware and OS's Works well in VirtualBox including wireless and magic mouse Burned Soas.iso for Soas-v4 and Soas-v3 boot fine Downloads#Apple_Mac_OS_X Apple Mac OS X
Sugar on a Stick/Mac

Getting the Sugar sources

Distributors can find the latest sources for the sucrose components here. Each release page has as links to the release pages of earlier releases.

Updating Sugar to the Latest Version

Distributions Index

This is the index of Community/Distributions and it lists the pages on GNU/Linux distributions, where Sugar is supported.