Sugar Labs, a manufacturer of software and open source, which creates software for the simplest notebook in the project One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), has announced the development of the operating system on a USB, which can be used on any old computer.

The software, called "Sugar on a Stick" (literally, sugar on a stick), can be run directly from a USB-drive capacity of 1GB. In addition to OS have 40 trainers, and game programs, including text and graphics editors, chess, and other custom applications. The user interface is primarily intended to guide children toward coeducation, it makes it easy to use files on different machines simultaneously and together to work on them. Another feature of the software, designed for children, is the automatic saving of all data to the parallel record of every action in the magazine.

Despite some troubles, in particular, the increase in prices notebook double OLPC project develops and, according to the source, has already secured a mini-notebooks 1mln more children worldwide, mostly in developing countries. Cheap operating system is made based and Fedora Linux, which allows the use of OLPC laptops in numerous applications for these systems.

In a Sugar on a Stick operating system can be used on any computer, including the machine Linux, Mac and Windows, and even on the Intel Classmate PC. Sugar Labs reports that the software can be downloaded free from the Web site of the organization.