Changes

For Activity Developers:

For Activity Developers:

* if possible, use an [[Ubuntu#Option_3_-_Deb_Packages_for_Gutsy|Ubuntu Gutsy Linux box with Jani's packages]] (~5 minute setup on Gutsy)

* if possible, use an [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]]

* if you are using MS Win32 and do not want to dual-boot to Linux, use the [[Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Windows#Really_Quick_Start|QEMU Quicker Start package for Win32]] (~5 minute setup on XP, ~10 minutes on Vista)

* if you are using MS Win32 and do not want to dual-boot to Linux, use the [[Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Windows#Really_Quick_Start|QEMU Quicker Start package for Win32]] (~5 minute setup on XP, ~10 minutes on Vista)

This is what the core development team uses and is one of the most pleasant ways to work (once set up). Compared with using an Emulated XO, installing sugar takes more time and space to set up, and can be difficult to maintain, but results in a more flexible environment.

This is what the core development team uses and is one of the most pleasant ways to work (once set up). Compared with using an Emulated XO, installing sugar takes more time and space to set up, and can be difficult to maintain, but results in a more flexible environment.

The 'native' environment for sugar-jhbuild is [[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]], and this is by far the best supported development platform for sugar-jhbuild. [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Ubuntu]] (Feisty or Gutsy) and [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]] can also build the environment.

The 'native' environment for sugar-jhbuild is [[Community/Distributions/Fedora|Fedora]], and this is by far the best supported development platform for sugar-jhbuild. [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|Ubuntu]] and [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo|Gentoo]] can also build the environment.

Currently sugar-jhbuild requires about 2.5 hours to complete building on a modern workstation (AMD4800+).

Currently sugar-jhbuild requires about 2.5 hours to complete building on a modern workstation (AMD4800+).

As Sugar stabilizes and is ported to more distributions, it should be possible to use your Linux distribution's package management system to install Sugar.  Distributions with ports so far:

As Sugar stabilizes and is ported to more distributions, it should be possible to use your Linux distribution's package management system to install Sugar.  Distributions with ports so far:

* [[Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux#Option_3_-_Deb_Packages_for_Gutsy|Ubuntu Gutsy]] -- These packages seem to work well and are extremely easy to set up.  If you are running on Ubuntu Gutsy and are not working on Sugar's core software, this is very simple way to work.

* [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]] -- These packages seem to work well and are extremely easy to set up.  If you are running on Ubuntu Gutsy and are not working on Sugar's core software, this is very simple way to work.

* [[Community/Distributions/Debian]]-- Note that we need more testing of this package-set, please let us know your experiences

* [[Community/Distributions/Debian]]-- Note that we need more testing of this package-set, please let us know your experiences