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Beta of Live USB Sugar OS opens

By Tim Conneally | Published April 22, 2009, 10:05 AM

Sugar on a StickSugar Labs, makers of the icon-based GUI for the One Laptop Per Child XO-1 announced today the first beta of Sugar on a Stick, a live version of the operating system that can be booted from a USB stick as small as 1GB in size.

While One Laptop Per Child continues forth despite the crushing blows dealt by the economy, Sugar Labs has found that a Live distro of its linguistically-unencumbered interface will help it grow outside of the confines of the "$100 laptop". Based on Fedora LiveUSB, Sugar on a Stick boots to the Linux distribution, and stores all usage data on the USB device without any alteration to the host system.

All are invited to test the project, as the finished product is intended to run on as many modern and legacy hardware configurations as possible.

It will definitely be worthwhile to simply experience Sugar on a system that is not resource-constrained. Betanews will be playing with Sugar on a Stick later today and will post an update.

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PC_Tool
Apr 22, 2009 - 4:10 PM edited

Not working on a Dell Latitude D630. Could be my cheap-o flash drive though.

*shrug*

*laughing*

Ok, apparently someone here has nothing better to do than mod me down... That's just so incredibly sad. What, it not working on a D630 pisses you off?

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4wd
Apr 23, 2009 - 1:04 AM edited

There you go, you're back to being a zero :)

Obviously it was just a case of 'shoot the messenger'.

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PC_Tool
Apr 23, 2009 - 2:58 PM edited
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Was going to try it last night on my desktop, but... WoW was calling ;)

Ah well, maybe tonight.

*It would appear fatty has made his rounds on his numerous accounts to spam-mod. He loves me so...

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TIM
Apr 24, 2009 - 12:21 AM

I'm trying to get it running on a ten year old IBM Thinkpad just for laughs....but nobody's laughing yet.

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PC_Tool
Apr 24, 2009 - 9:08 AM

Still didn't get it on my desktop at home... to busy lately.

Perhaps this weekend, if I remember.

Let me know how it goes on that thinkpad (opr doesn't go, as the case will likely be).

Still, it's a beta; I am sure they will improve support for a wider range of devices in the future builds.

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