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==LiveCD==
==LiveCD==
We have a number of LiveCD and LiveUSB efforts underway, although none of them are of production quality yet.
We have a number of LiveCD and LiveUSB efforts underway, although none of them are of production quality yet. The goal of these efforts is to make it easy for teachers to try Sugar in situations where the school computers are locked down or cannot be reimaged. Another use case is for children to use Sugar at school and at home using a LiveUSB in cases where 1-to-1 solutions are not available.
Caroline Meeks and I went to a computer lab at a Boston Public School to see what constraints we might encounter. They had a room full of Compaq Pentium 4 "EVO" desktops with 256M of DRAM. We tried a variety of LiveCDs (with and without Sugar).
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|Distribution||Sugar||Result
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|Fedora 9||0.82||Never completed launching desktop
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|Ubuntu 8.4||-||Never completed launching desktop
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|Ubuntu 8,4||654||Boot failed due to insufficient memory for RAM disk--required 384K
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|TinyLinux||-||Booted quickly and ran well
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|Slackware||-||Booted but died OOM after running a few applications
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Other issues included the setting and saving of parameters, e.g., TinyLinux saves network settings, which would not work well when switching from school to home.