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| + | ''Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.'' |
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| + | ''The Sugar Labs wiki is an independent publication and is not affiliated with, nor has it been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation.'' |
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| ==Sugar on Windows== | | ==Sugar on Windows== |
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− | No one has ported Sugar to Windows (that we know of) but you can run Sugar on GNU/Linux in an emulator on top of a Windows System. | + | No one has ported Sugar to [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]] (that we know of), but you can run Sugar on GNU/Linux in an emulator on top of a Windows operating system. |
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− | '''Note:''' Alternatively, you can boot your Windows machine with a Sugar LiveCD or LiveUSB—this will enable you to run Sugar without making any modifications to your Windows machine. See [[Supported_systems#Starch]].) | + | '''Note:''' Alternatively, you can boot your computer with a Sugar Live CD or Live USB—this will enable you to run Sugar without making any modifications to your Windows installation. See [[Sugar on a Stick/Boot]]. |
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− | '''Note:''' The Wine Activity lets you run many Windows applications from within Sugar. | + | '''Note:''' The Wine Activity lets you run many Windows-based applications from within Sugar. |
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| === A Sugar installer for Windows === | | === A Sugar installer for Windows === |
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| Wade Brainerd wrote a simple Sugar installer for Windows: | | Wade Brainerd wrote a simple Sugar installer for Windows: |
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| * [http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe] 07-Nov-2008 | | * [http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Setup.exe] 07-Nov-2008 |
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− | It installs/uninstalls a working Sugar environment (based on Ton van Overbeek's QEMU—See below) with just a few clicks. | + | It installs/uninstalls a working Sugar environment (based on Ton van Overbeek's QEMU—See below) with just a few clicks. (Unfortunately, it does not install any Activities to use in that environment.) |
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| The installer was built using the open source installer creator NSIS (nsis.sourceforge.net). The installer script can be found here: | | The installer was built using the open source installer creator NSIS (nsis.sourceforge.net). The installer script can be found here: |
| [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wadeb/wininstall/.git wininstall/.git] | | [http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/wadeb/wininstall/.git wininstall/.git] |
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− | '''Note to build administrators:''' NSIS exists for GNU/Linux, so this process of creating Windows installers for Sugar could be automated. | + | '''Note to build administrators:''' NSIS exists for GNU/Linux, so this process of creating Windows-based installers for Sugar could be automated. |
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| === Running Sugar in an emulator === | | === Running Sugar in an emulator === |
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| * [http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/user-doc.html General information on using QEMU] | | * [http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/user-doc.html General information on using QEMU] |
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− | === See also ===
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− | * [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Windows Sugar on Windows] | + | * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Windows |
| + | * [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Windows OLPC Sugar on Windows] |
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| [[Category:Supported systems]] | | [[Category:Supported systems]] |