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LiveCD released with OLPC's Sugar OS
by Brad Linder Apr 10th 2007
Sure, the computer formerly known as the $100 laptop or the OLPC may not be available at Best Buy anytime soon. But that doesn't mean you can't try out its innovative operating system yourself.Some folks over at Digg have posted several links to LiveCDs that will let you run the Sugar operating system on a PC. For the uninitiated, a LiveCD is a Linux CD that you insert into your disc drive in order to boot into a working version of the operating system. You don't need to install anything on your computer, and when you reboot your computer and eject the CD you can boot into Windows again, without having lost any data.
There's also a version that lets you run Sugar from within Windows using virtualization.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
