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A '''LiveCD''' is an bootable medium which has an OS executed upon boot without installing to a internal storage.

Several efforts are underway to create a liveCD emulating the XO.

== Current efforts ==

=== Notes ===

: The maintainers of the [[LiveCD]] seem to have abandoned it.  Greg DeKoenigsberg took a look at another way to automatically generate LiveCDs in a [http://gregdek.livejournal.com/19843.html recent blog post], but this is apparently still a work-in-progress.  Until someone starts maintaining the LiveCD again, it looks like the best way to work with the XO software is via [[emulation]]. &mdash;[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 14:47, 2 December 2007 (EST)

: A full working Live-CD with a recent build is available. See: "[sugar] sugar xubuntu livecd": [[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2007-December/003899.html]].
: The iso image may be downloaded at http://startx.ro/sugar/
::http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=670171 has further discussion. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 20:52, 29 January 2008 (EST)

: Another OLPC XO-LiveCD: [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/008242.html]
: Source: ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/
: Mirror: http://skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/

=== XUbuntu Gutsy LiveCD ===
* Download: http://startx.ro/sugar/
* [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2007-December/003899.html Annoucement].
A [http://startx.ro/sugar/ XUbuntu LiveCD] with the Sugar Ubuntu package (with installation capability and launch-from-USB-key).  Allows you to run Sugar directly on the hardware with an XUbuntu environment as well.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=670171 has further discussion.

=== Pilgrim Fedora LiveCD ===

A [http://gregdek.livejournal.com/19843.html Fedora Pilgrim LiveCD] with the official image pre-downloaded and configured to run in Qemu with KQemu.  Allows you to run the image from the standard Fedora desktop inside an emulator.

=== LiveBackup LiveCDs ===
* Maintainers: Wolfgang Rohrmoser and Kurt Gramlich
* Downloads: [ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/ Source] and [http://skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/ Mirror]  
* Description: [http://livebackup.sourceforge.net/ LiveBackup] based version of an official OLPC image. Currently available image is based on build-625, but they are working on more recent build.  
* The Project is hosted at [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/livebackup-xo-cd;a=summary git]
* [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/008242.html Annoucement]

These LiveCDs allow you to convert a "regular" machine into a Sugar-running machine without touching the hard disk of the machine.  This allows you to play with and test how the software runs with your hardware.  It also lets you demonstrate and potentially test your software (at full speed).

It is also possible to use this type of LiveCD to create a "virtual Sugar lab" for a school, where a traditional computer lab's computers are booted into a Sugar environment, storing their data on a networked or other storage device, without changing the lab's installed software.

== OLPC XO-1 LiveCD (obsolete) ==
''Note:

''The LiveCD has not been updated since early April 2007. Much which now works, was not even started back then.
''The maintainers seem to have abandoned it.  Greg DeKoenigsberg took a look at another way to automatically generate LiveCDs in a [http://gregdek.livejournal.com/19843.html recent blog post], but this is apparently still a work-in-progress. 

''Until someone starts maintaining this again, it looks like the best way is to go with [[LiveCd#Current_efforts|other LiveCDs listed above]], or work with the XO software is via [[emulation]]''


Download (right-click and 'Save Link as') [http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/latest/livecd/olpc-redhat-stream-sdk-livecd.iso olpc-redhat-stream-sdk-livecd.iso]. You can check when the file was last updated [http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/latest/livecd/ here].

The LiveCD may not boot off an external optical-drive connected via USB.

<cite>Ivan Krstić</cite> [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2007-January/000018.html wrote]:
<blockquote uri="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2007-January/000018.html">
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All our builds, including LiveCD ones, are built using the pilgrim tool:

    http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/pilgrim.git
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That's where you want to start investigating if you're interested in mastering your own.

== External links ==
*[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2007-January/000018.html Remastering OLPC livecd]. Ivan Krstić. 2007-01-15.

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