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RecycleUSB.com - Donate your Flash Drives for a Good Cause

  July 22nd, 2009



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RecycleUSB.com - Donate your Flash Drives for a Good Cause

If you've gotten trade-show complementary flash drives hanging around that you aren't using, donate them. RecycleUSB.com is taking donated drives and has partnered with the Sugar-on-a-Stick project to give kids a way to have their own personal PC (minus the PC). Sugar is an open-source project for turning a USB stick into bootable self-contained operating system. The system is based around the Fedora LiveUSB distro of Linux and can be run on almost any x86 computer laying around that supports booting from USB. It doesn't even need to have a functioning hard drive. It's a great learning environment for children and entire classrooms can share a single machine without worrying about stepping all over each other.

If you'd like to try Sugar for yourself you can download a copy and be up in running in no time. The program and source code are both available on their site. The minimum flash drive size you need to run Strawberry (codename for their latest release) is 1GB. Sugar and RecycleUSB.com are welcome site after all OLPC's internal strife. This may not be One Laptop Per Child but it makes donated hardware go a LOT farther in schools. If you are thinking about trying it for yourself you might want to look into one of the larger and faster flash drives for a better experience. This is an easy cause to help out with. Give 'til it Giga-Hertz. Here's the address.

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