Sugar on a Stick: try the OLPC experience on any PC

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Sugar on a Stick: try the OLPC experience on any PC

Sugar on an EEE PC

Lilliputing reports on Sugar on a Stick, an easy way for you to try the XO Laptop’s user interface on any PC:

The OLPC XO Laptop may have sparked the netbook revolution by showing it’s possible to create and mass produce a low cost but quite capable computer. The project provided the spark that led to the creation of the Asus Eee PC, HP Mini Note, and scores of other low cost ultraportable computers. But there are a few things the OLPC team did that have yet to be imitated, including the group’s advancement in cheap display technology and the innovative Sugar OS which packs a whole bunch of educational tools into an open source desktop environment.

But a few of the founding members of the OLPC project have moved on to new enterprises, where they’re hoping to bring their innovative ideas to the masses. Mary Lou Jepsen’s Pixel Qi is expected to begin producing low cost, ultra low power, high quality displays this year. And Sugar OS creator Walter Bender has moved on to Sugar Labs, a group which hopes to bring the Sugar interface to additional devices.

The goal is to bring the Sugar OS to any computer, not just the OLPC XO Laptop. And as step one, the team released Sugar on a Stick a while back. Basically, what Sugar on a Stick lets you do is download and install the Sugar OS onto a USB flash disk with 1GB of storage space or more. The end result is a USB stick that you can insert into pretty much any x86 based computer to boot into the Sugar environment.

Sugar on a Stick: Run the OLPC operating system on any PC

2 thoughts on “Sugar on a Stick: try the OLPC experience on any PC

  1. Gregory Schoppe says:

    the thing to note, is that USB booting is NOT universal… it should be and is on many (not all) new machines, but is NOT universal…

    In fact, a computer I built for a friend just last year (used a no name, but new model, motherboard against my recommendation) had no USB booting… some home server systems say they support it, but hang on boot if any usb storage is attached.

    anywho, if it doesn’t work for you, it may not be your fault.

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