[IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

[Bill Kerr]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin,
> which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD.
>
> So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run
> Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used
> on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on
> the image including most notably...
>
> * sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
> * sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
>
> ...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support.
>
> We, the OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora,
> which might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time.
>
> Where can you get it? Easily, here:
>
>    http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso
>
> Here's the SHA1 checksum, just if you're interested:
>
>    f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d  sugar-spin.iso
>
> And what if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? Even easier!
> You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already
> includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
>
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip
>
> Thank you everybody, who made this possible!
>
> --Sebastian
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This was easy and quick to make using the liveusb creator

Problems:

   - not enough activities
   - collaboration did not work out of the box when tested on my network at
   school :-(
   - shutdown does not work from drop down xo icon
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