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    Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC

    Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO

    First Windows XP OLPC Pilot Marks the Transition From the Sugar UI

    Mystery Tablet Shown at Intel Event, Either the Classmate 3 or a Quad Core Speak & Spell

    Windows XP On OLPC Gets Slowly Tested

    First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP

    Intel Classmate OS Will Be as Sugary as the OLPC

    OLPC XO Laptop's Sugar OS Being Shopped to Four Other Laptop-Makers

    Portable Urine Glucose Meter Hates Needles, Loves Pee

    Negroponte Moots Windows XP Version of OLPC—Is It a Case of So Long, Sugar?
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
    ugh, no...

    I prefer Ubuntu on an SDHC card on my XO. Sugar's interface isn't just different... it's backward and insufficient.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
    I have this running in a little virtual machine, its a fun OS to play with. If you have kids and a space machine, you can make your own OLPC.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/24/09

    @Dr.Danger drives a Chevrolet movie theater: that should read *Spare machine

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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/07/09

    In reply to Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO
    Maybe they could reduce costs by having employees use XO computers.


    Actually, the whole OLPC organization is misguided. It would be much more efficient and successful to develop and manufacture them as a commercial product, in partnership rather than in competition with industry leaders, and then create a nonprofit solely to distribute them to impoverished areas.

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    Image of ppeetteeyy ppeetteeyy
    01/07/09

    In reply to Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO
    WHY are they trying to make dual touch screen ones?!?! Why don't they just keep the cost DOWN and make basic well functioning cheep laptops? They could do a lot more good with their donations that way. This is just ridiculous.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    01/07/09

    @ppeetteeyy: The keyboard leaves a little to be desired, and is prone to tearing of the membrane.
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    Image of NotSoSiniSter NotSoSiniSter
    01/07/09

    In reply to Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO
    Not to sound cold, but what if they actually sold those things HERE. In the US? Maybe they could actually make some money. I think a lot of parents would want to buy a $100 computer for there little kid to play with. There is a huge opportunity but there blowing away the chance. THEN when they are sitting on top of a pile of cash they can start sending those things to Africa with there assets and not half hearted donations.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    01/07/09

    @NotSoSiniSter: I agree. I would have jumped at the chance to get something like this for my daughter, heck, I'd have paid quite a bit more than $100. As it is, my daughter is really not old enough to do much more with a computer and my heart jumps every time she uses one of my 1k+ laptops.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    01/07/09

    @Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: @Andyr2120: @ppeetteeyy: @CrispyAardvark: As one of the first people in the US to order an XO, I have to say that it's not the best laptop in the world. I like it, but at first, the laptop was in need of a lot of help. The OS was terrible, had none of the features they said it would, and was crippled to dis-allow certain programs to be loaded like web browsers and other things. It still needs some work, which is why I don't use it as much as I would like. The community HAS been working on it, which is great. Also add in that I don't know my linux very well, and it was much easier for me to pull a laptop out of a dumpster and add some RAM than it was/is to get this laptop to work very well.

    That being said, I do love the whole idea of the project. I think if I learned on Linux to start, I would easily get the laptop up and running. The screen IS awesome, and once I finally get a OS with a GUI, I will use it more than I do now. I got a lot of attention when I was using it at the Gallery.
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