[IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

Thanks, Sebastian.  Brilliant work here.

--g

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Sebastian Dziallas 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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