Linked by Rahul on Fri 31st Oct 2008 01:39 UTC
OLPC Project uses a derivative of Fedora as the operating system for it's XO laptops. One of the unique features of these laptops, is an environment called Sugar developed as a collaboration between Red Hat and other developers and now being maintained by Sugarlabs, an independent non-profit organization. The Fedora Project has released a new spin, a live CD with the Sugar environment by default and a number of additional activities including sugar-browse based on XULRunner and sugar-write based on Abiword. Furthermore, the Fedora liveusb-creator software has been updated to include support for this spin. For people developing the Sugar environment or those curious about it but don't have an OLPC system, this live cd can be a handy way to dive in.
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RE[3]: OLPC is dead, long live Sugar
by ari-free on Fri 31st Oct 2008 10:30
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RE[4]: OLPC is dead, long live Sugar
by h3rman on Fri 31st Oct 2008 10:40
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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.
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What do you mean exactly?