OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20463/Announcing_the_Fedora_Sugar_Spin Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:41:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com OLPC is dead, long live Sugar http://osnews.com/thread?335785 http://osnews.com/thread?335785 Sugar is really a cool project.

Even for those who hate it, the concept of the interface is interesting to disagree with, it's always good to try out new GUIs whether they're for kids or not.

One of the cool concepts of the interface is the level of interaction you're working with, which is graphical much more than any OS has been. Working on an app on your own, or with a group, or with everyone out there, the educational thing behind it did make sense.
And of course there are much more cool things than that to play around with.

I've played around a bit with a XO machine this year, it could have been such a great machine.

Too bad the evil **** Negroponte misused the trust of the many people who contributed to the project, most of whom I know to be very disappointed by this guy.
We should have listened to the conspiracy theories, after all his brother had been a CIA executive, i.e., a criminal.

Lesson learned. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments RE: OLPC is dead, long live Sugar http://osnews.com/thread?335795 http://osnews.com/thread?335795 well it's a lot easier to be idealistic when you don't have to deal with hardware. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ari-free) Comments RE[2]: OLPC is dead, long live Sugar http://osnews.com/thread?335796 http://osnews.com/thread?335796 What do you mean exactly? Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments RE[3]: OLPC is dead, long live Sugar http://osnews.com/thread?335801 http://osnews.com/thread?335801 Hardware costs real money to produce. You can't just work on it on your own free time and press a button and it's now available to 5 billion people for free. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ari-free) Comments RE[4]: OLPC is dead, long live Sugar http://osnews.com/thread?335803 http://osnews.com/thread?335803
Hardware costs real money to produce. You can't just work on it on your own free time and press a button and it's now available to 5 billion people for free.


That has nothing to do with the treason by Negroponte, who ended up selling out to Microsoft. Contributors thought they were working on a free software education project. The hardware was supposed to be working with that software and be as open as possible. That can be done, but it can't be done if the leaders of the project purposefully screw up. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments Non x86, non Linux? http://osnews.com/thread?336110 http://osnews.com/thread?336110 Anyone tried recent Sugar builds on PPC ? Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adricnet) Comments