Trisquel on Sugar
We have a new project, a live -and installable- CD/USB image running the latest Sugar learning platform:
"The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software."
This new project will improve the Trisquel Edu system, providing a nice educational environment for first grade students. We hope this will also be the start of a productive relationship with the SugarLabs folks, who helped us a lot to achieve this release. Many thanks to Aleksey Lim and to everyone at the Sugar project for giving us this wonderful software!
The project was presented during the Software Freedom Day 09 event organized by the Free Software Foundation. Briefly introduced by Walter Bender, founder of SugarLabs, our Sugar+Trisquel solution provides a way to run this excelent educational software in a fully free system. Trisquel 3.0 was also featured in the FSF event, running on the computers available for the public on site.
Highligts
- Built using the latest Sugar and Trisquel versions available.
- Installable live CD, with MD5 self-checking utility.
- Persistent user data in live-usb sessions, graphical usb-creator included.
- Boot menu with 30 selectable languages.
- LTSP thin client support using a Trisquel Edu server.
- Sugar style artwork.
Testing
You can help us and the Sugar project by testing the release candidate iso image:
http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar/trisquel-sugar_3.0-LATEST_i686.iso. Send any bugs you find to our bug tracker. We will also report them upstream in case they are not caused by the Trisquel base system.
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really nice to know you support the sugar UI... one small thing however : could you post somewhere the MD5 sum for trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686.iso?
edit : I hadn't noticed the md5 self-test utility :-)
in case someone needs it though, the right md5 sum is :
1f88a24154de88e4fd9167756ebb9faf
regards,
oliwek
Done: http://devel.trisquel.info/sugar/md5sum.txt
thank you. I see you already have uploaded a new iso. Do you publish somewhere the changes made between versions?
You can follow the changes here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trisquel_On_A_Sugar_Toast
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution using a free version of the Linux kernel as distributed by the Linux-libre project. The main goals of the project are the production of a fully free as in speech system that must be easy to use, complete, and with good language support including translations for the English (default), Basque, Catalonian, Chinese, French, Galician, Hindi, Portuguese and Spanish languages.
Trisquel's name comes from the Celtic symbol triskelion, or triskele in English, consisting of three interlocked spirals. The project's logo depicts a triskelion made of the union of three Debian swirls as a sign of recognition to the project on which it is based.
The project was born in 2004 with the sponsorship of the University of Vigo, and officially presented in April 2005 with Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project, as a special guest. It was originally developed as a Debian-based distribution, but the repositories were changed to Ubuntu with the 2.0 release, in the summer of 2008. The project hosts its own repositories which are derivatives of Ubuntu's main and universe components, but with all proprietary software removed. The differences include the removal of all non-free packages, the substitution of the original Linux kernel with the blob-free version linux-libre, and the addition of several packages.
By December 11, 2008, Trisquel GNU/Linux was included by the Free Software Foundation in the list of free GNU/Linux distributions available at the GNU webpage, following the verification process taken to ensure the commitment of the Trisquel development team and community to promoting and distributing only 100% free software.
regards,
Matt John
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