Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms (Ars Technica)

[Posted June 26, 2009 by ris]

Ryan Paul reviews Sugar on a Stick. "The official release of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a significant milestone for the Sugar project. In this release, the platform exhibits a much higher level of refinement and maturity than the previous versions, which were shipped on OLPC's XO laptops. The user interface is smoother, the individual components seem better integrated, and many impressive new programs that have been added."

Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms (Ars Technica)

Posted Jun 26, 2009 22:55 UTC (Fri) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

We had an OLPC Road Show presentation at our local LUG (Bozeman, MT) last night and I made a video. I helped with the presentation and had 42 of the computers in the lab running Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) from LiveUSB, LiveCD, and Live(external)HD. The LiveCD even worked great on the Intel iMacs we have. If interested in the presentation, you can find a video of it here:

http://www.montanalinux.org/olpc-roadshow-video.html

Embedded Flash or downloadable Ogg Theora.

The presentation is more about the OLPC project and enticing the audience to get involved as contributors... rather than real "technical" content. After the presentation was over we got to play with 10 OLPCs and 5 of them are now checked out to LUG members for a month. I think they are going to get some contributors out of the deal. :)