[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[Simon Peter]

2009/1/31 David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>:
> Can't we split it into 2 parts, the regular startup and desktop bits
> (as created in teh oses) and then the downloadable bit which hooks in
> and does the sugar stuff.... Then people could use their distro to
> create the usb pen drive, and download the (200mb or 300mb) bit for
> sugar and its activities...

I've done exactly that in Sbuntu:
http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/

(You take a stock Ubuntu 8.10 USB stick, and simply add the file
sugar.squashfs to the directory casper/ on that stick - done.)

Unfortunately the Fedrora Live CD infrastucture doesn't support this yet:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470879