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Will OLPC's 'Sugar' Have an Effect on Other OSes?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-paradigm-shift dept.

g8orade wonders: "As a recent article notes: for the OLPC, the software is more important than the hardware. A generation or more of children in developing countries will learn about computers using a computer that doesn't use a desktop from either Apple or Microsoft. Will the OLPC software finally be the license-less tool, the uncharged-for value add that raises the bar for other OS makers to compete, given the same hardware?"

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  1. Re:Virtual Machine by mcroydon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go ahead and play. Grab a sugar image and fire up QEMU.

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