[IAEP] [sugar] Sugar 0.81.3 livecd

[Sameer Verma]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I played a bit with the awesome livecd-tools for Fedora and I made a
> quick livecd of the the 0.81.3 release.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/livecd/livecd-sugar-0.81.3-1.iso
>
> You can run it in several ways:
>
> * Run it using qemu, with the --cdrom option.
> * Burn it on a cdrom.
>
> To get persistence:
>
> * Install it on a usb stick using livecd-iso-to-disk from the
> livecd-tools package in Fedora 9.
> * https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator (supposed to work from windows too)
>
> It's also very easy to rebuild it yourself if you are on Fedora 9. The
> only "annoyance" is that you need root:
>
> su
> yum install wget zip
> git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/marco/sugar-livecd
> cd sugar-livecd
> ./build-livecd
>
> Known problems:
>
> * Etoys and Write are missing. I will try to get them in the next release.
> * The image is bigger than it could be since it contains many
> unnecessary packages. I have the feeling that they are dragged in by
> gdm, but I have to check.
> * The gdm login is useless and annoying.
> * Many useful tools are likely missing.
>
> Marco
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Hi Marco,
How is this different from the Live CD from Rohrmoser and Gramlich
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd#LiveBackup_XO-LiveCDs)?

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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