Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Sugar Labs Announces Immediate Availability of Sugar on a Stick
From Sugar Labs -
Sugar Labs has announced the immediate availability of Sugar on a Stick v1 Strawberry. Available free for download at www.sugarlabs.org, Sugar on a Stick can be loaded onto an ordinary 1GB USB flash drive and used to reboot any PC or netbook directly into the award-winning Sugar environment. It runs on recent Macs with a helper CD and in Windows using virtualization. Sugar on a Stick is designed to work with a School Server that can provide content distribution, homework collection, backup services, Moodle integration, and filtered access to the Internet. The Strawberry release is meant for classroom testing; feedback will be incorporated into the next version, available towards the end of 2009.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Sugar on Asus Eee PC?
With OLPC eschewing Sugar (OLPC's graphical interface) for Windows XP, Walter Bender, Sugar's developer and former OLPC president of software and content has established Sugar Labs, a non-profit foundation that will work on new versions of Sugar.
According to the Sugar Labs wiki, the foundation "will be a unifying catalyst for free and open-source learning systems across multiple distribution[s] and hardware platforms...In order to provide a rich learning experience to as many of the world’s children as possible, it is critical to not just provide computers to children, but to ensure that the software that runs on the computers maximizes the potential for engaging in activities that promote learning: exploration, expression, and collaboration. By being independent of any specific hardware platform and by remaining dedicated to the principles of free and open-source software, Sugar Labs ensures that others can develop diverse interfaces and applications from which governments and schools can choose.”
The announcement also indicated that Sugar Labs will work on adapting Sugar for low-cost platforms other than the XO, such as the ASUS Eee PC.
More details at Xconomy.