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Fedora 10, a "Live" solution for One Laptop Per Child.
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| When One Laptop Per Child starts their next Give 1 Get 1 program on November
| 17th, there will be an option to purchase an upgrade that will allow users to
| run a standard Linux desktop based on Fedora 10, on their XO system
| (pronounced "ex - oh"). This special edition of Fedora 10 is an alternative
| for adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called
| Sugar practical for daily use. With this "Live" release the Fedora Project is
| once again highlighting a fantastic feature unique to modern Linux
| distributions.
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http://on-disk.com/cms/index.php?wiki=Fedora_Live_on_One_Laptop_Per_Child_XO
Sugar-Coated Fedora LiveCD Gives A Taste of the OLPC XO
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| It's interesting to watch Sugar spread from the OLPC XO laptop and appear in
| several major distributions. Aside from encouraging wider development, it
| opens up a very targeted environment and platform to an audience of users who
| might never consider an OLPC machine.
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http://ostatic.com/176568-blog/sugar-coated-fedora-livecd-gives-a-taste-of-the-olpc-xo
Recent:
Interview with Walter Bender of Sugar Labs
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| I'm happy to tell you that Sugar is still being distributed with the OLPC.
| Sugar is now in the hands of a half a million children and teachers
| worldwide, Bender says.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080920181151638
Edward Cherlin expands the vision of OLPC (video)
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| You may know about One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Sugar, and the many projects
| inspired by this initiative. You may not know Edward Mokurai Cherlin or of
| his plans for OLPC: Education, economic development, global commerce, all in
| an environmentally friendly, fair-trade context -- plus ending poverty at a
| profit. All in less than 40 minutes of conversation.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/147070
OLPC's Amazon Notebook Linux Only
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| “Contrary to some media reports, it will be a Linux-based XO Laptop that will
| be offered as part of the global initiative and not a dual-boot machine
| running both Windows and Linux,” OLPC said in a statement.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2008/09/olpcs-amazon-notebook-linux-on.html
What do Free and Open Source Software Leaders Think of Microsoft?
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| "Microsoft suborned the One Laptop Per Child project, converting it into a
| massive Windows training campaign. The project says it is giving the
| purchasing governments 'more choice' by supporting Windows as well as
| GNU/Linux, but those governments will tend to choose Windows by default. In
| some countries, people will campaign to prevent that. If these campaigns
| succeed, the OLPC project may yet make a positive contribution to the world.
| Otherwise, it will do overall harm."
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3753076_3
A Cutting Edge Sugar User Interface Demo
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| Overall I have to say that I'm very impressed by the improvements that Sugar
| has seen over the past few months. While it may take some time for them to
| trickle down into the stable builds it's great to see into what general
| direction things are moving. Personally I'm currently running faster 2056 and
| it's a relatively smooth ride so far with the notable exception of 'record'
| not working. And as much as I love 'record' the improved activity startup
| time alone more than makes up for this loss.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/cutting_edge_sugar_ui.html
Why Sugar is a big deal for Windows
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| Leigh Dyer explains why the low-cost laptop interface is shaking up the OS
| world, and predicts why it could appear on millions of Windows systems.
|
| [...]
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| More radical changes may be in store for the future. A lot of Sugar's
| features, like the mesh networking, user presence support, and the Journal's
| file store, could be useful across the Linux desktop, so these may end up
| decoupled from the Sugar UI and made available for separate use in a range of
| applications.
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http://www.pcauthority.com.au/BlogEntry/113127,why-sugar-is-a-big-deal-for-windows.aspx
Sugar Labs' Walter Bender on the Sweetness of Collaborative Learning
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| He has founded Sugar Labs, a foundation that seeks to advance development of
| Sugar, the user interface originally designed for OLPC.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63354.html
Linux start-up Sugar Labs in informal talks with four laptop makers
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| Sugar Laboratories, Inc. is now in informal discussions with four ultra-low
| cost laptop manufacturers about the possibility of running its Linux software
| on their hardware, according to the new company's founder.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Linux_startup_Sugar_Labs_in_informal_talks_with_four_laptop_makers/1211467857
http://tinyurl.com/3ereo6
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