[mdlug] one laptop per child review

[Michael S. Mikowski]

On Friday 18 January 2008, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > From: Brian Hurley
> >
> > I wrote a review of the Old Laptop Per Child XO laptop
> > (formery known as
> > the $100 laptop.
> >
> > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/17/review_xo_laptop_hands_on/
>
>  Looks interesting, and could be useful with a bit of evolution of
> the interfaces.
>
... or complete replacement.

Honestly, Sugar, in retrospect, was an overly ambitious project that 
boldy denies the philosophy of the very OS upon it was built.  In 
Linux, everything is a file.  On Sugar, nothing is a file.

I'd take components of Sugar and bolt in to a standard Gnome interface.  
Gnome, with its continuing removal of user options, should be simple 
enough in its own right for most children.  And, continuing maintenance 
costs would go down.

Lets face it, the only reason XP (yes, XP!) is gaining traction on the 
OLPC project is because Sugar is much less than sweet.  And I'm being 
nice.

$0.02
-- 
Mike
www.dynaorg.com