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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Member since:2006-07-26
While the UI does look toyish it is targeted towards kids.
...and not just any kids. Kids that have probably never seen a computer before, in real life, in a movie, or in their dreams.
I couldn't imagine what the best UI would be to start them off with having no previous experience at all.
Member since:2006-10-24
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.
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.
That's not the issue. It's the software. You need great apps to drive the hardware sales. The laptop has great simple apps that do what they do well, but there isn't anything there that is sexy that governments find attractive. There may be a bit of uncertainty since most of the world's computers run Windows. Intel is helping either with them bad mouthing the product against their Classmate.
I wrote a post about it on olpcusers.com.
http://www.olpcusers.com/headlines/2008/04/24/nicholas-negroponte-e...
Edited 2008-04-24 15:33 UTC
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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