Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by happykid
The road to the One Laptop Per Child has been riddled with humps and bumps, such as hardware issues, the failure of the 'G1G1' scheme, and the inability to reach the USD 100 price mark, culminating in the resignation of the project's president yesterday. Now, Negroponte, the project's founder and chairman, has stated something that might alienate the project's strongest supporters even further: the OLPC might evolve into using Windows XP only.
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2006-08-18
Who cares? The OLPC pretty much lost most of their credibility I think.
Installing Windows on it will just increase the price more. But the OLPC is already priced 2x higher than the original target.
IMHO, the Sugar interface is crap and too toyish even for most kids. The kids laptops you find at Toys"R"US have a better interface than Sugar.
It would have been a far better decision to have made a lean installation of Fedora--uninstall and disable unnecessary programs and services, while preserving a standard desktop like Gnome.
This is probably partly why the laptop hasn't got the reception the OLPC organization hoped for. Turning the Sugar UI into a replacement shell for Windows would be no different; it will just turn Windows into a toy as well.
Edited 2008-04-24 08:51 UTC