Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child project can now be used on any old PC. Sugar on a stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a new interface and access to collaborative educational software. The software, designed for use by children, was launched at the LinuxTag conference in Berlin. It has been developed by Sugar Labs, a breakaway organisation from OLPC. “[Sugar on a stick] is a great new opportunity to breathe new life into these old machines,” Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, told BBC News.
FTA: “used on any old PC.”
Except those that don’t boot from CD or USB stick
Also, I suspect this is limited to x86-only? It mentions “Macs” – but it doesn’t clarify if there’s a PPC version.
I actually have a few old Pentium laptops still that either don’t have optical drives at all, or don’t support CD boot…
edit: acronym typo
Edited 2009-06-24 21:48 UTC
I have an unpleasant feeling that in this context the “old PC” means “PIII with 256 MB of RAM” or more.
Not really what I’m used think of an old PC.
Well, a computer that’s much older than a P4 won’t be able to boot from a USB drive, and a computer older than a PIII may not even have USB at all.
why give children old unreliable hardware when a new laptop is less than 100$ @ laptop.org??