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In the past, OLPC and the community produced [[wikipedia:Live CD|Live CDs]], allowing OLPC's "Sugar" interface to be run on "regular computers" without making any permanent changes to the system. Today, Sugar is developed as a generic project and is available in various different live media forms, see '''[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads Sugar Labs Downloads]'''.
'''The LiveCD has not been updated since early April. Much which now works, was not even started back then. We hope to have a new LiveCD soon.'''


Information regarding old LiveCD projects based around very old OLPC software releases can be found at [[LiveCd/Historical]].
Trying out the [[Sugar]] environment is as simple as 1, 2, 3!

=== Step 1 ===

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]

=== Step 2 ===

Burn the iso image to a blank CD

=== Step 3 ===

Pop CD into your machine and boot.


== Help and Tips ==

You can check when the file was last updated [http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/latest/livecd/ here].
: As of 2007-Jun-20, it was 2007-Apr-07. [[User:MitchellNCharity|MitchellNCharity]] 09:57, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

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

You can [[Emulating the XO/Help and tips#Anchor:how to change desktop resolution|change the desktop resolution]].


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In the past, OLPC and the community produced Live CDs, allowing OLPC's "Sugar" interface to be run on "regular computers" without making any permanent changes to the system. Today, Sugar is developed as a generic project and is available in various different live media forms, see Sugar Labs Downloads.

Information regarding old LiveCD projects based around very old OLPC software releases can be found at LiveCd/Historical.