{"id":91,"date":"2009-03-18T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~gpotter\/?p=91"},"modified":"2009-03-18T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T06:54:09","slug":"sugar-on-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Sugar on a Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><a title=\"Image via prizepony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prizepony\/3003189488\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3188\/3003189488_73eba0214b.jpg?v=1225817601\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I updated my son&#8217;s <a title=\"XO\" href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/laptop\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">XO laptop<\/a> to the latest firmware 767 yesterday.\u00a0 Reflashing the base system was surprisingly easy, but I found &#8216;sugarizing&#8217; apps to be a bit more labor intensive.\u00a0 To &#8216;sugarize&#8217; an app is to place an app icon in the graphical interface called Sugar ( pictured left ).\u00a0 Although the OLPC wiki has lots of sugarized apps available, OLPC&#8217;s Sugar is a branch of Fedora linux and can run a vast array of linux apps &#8211; from the command line.\u00a0 Not so cool for a 7 year old.<\/p>\n<p>I started poking around for a Sugar VM and found a few, but stumbled upon a gem called <a title=\"Sugar On A Stick\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.sugarlabs.org\/go\/Sugar_on_a_Stick\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoAS)<\/a>.\u00a0 This project packages up Sugar into a bootable USB flash drive allowing you to experiment with the OLPC operating system and user interface on the go.\u00a0 Just what I needed.\u00a0 The whole process took under 30 minutes, and now I have a 1 GB flash disk with a fully funcational OLPC installation to tinker with.\u00a0 I have managed to install Skype on my son&#8217;s OLPC and sugarize the app so he can point&#8217;n&#8217;click to use &#8211; worked out the trial and error of this entire process on my sugar-on-a-stick.\u00a0 The disk image and installation instructions can be found at the <a title=\"Sugar on a Stick Wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.sugarlabs.org\/go\/Sugar_on_a_Stick\/Installation\" target=\"_blank\">SoAS wiki<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I updated my son&#8217;s XO laptop to the latest firmware 767 yesterday.\u00a0 Reflashing the base system was surprisingly easy, but I found &#8216;sugarizing&#8217; apps to be a bit more labor intensive.\u00a0 To &#8216;sugarize&#8217; an app is to place an app icon in the graphical interface called Sugar ( pictured left ).\u00a0 Although the OLPC wiki&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","tag-olpc","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}