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OLPC Operating System Available to Download

Posted by Zonk on from the make-your-own-one-laptop dept.

ThePopeLayton writes "Engadget is reporting that the operating system made specifically for the OLPC project is now available for download. 'Apparently, the Linux-based Sugar OS from the One Laptop Per Child project is now available via a bootable LiveCD ISO, and according to user reports, works quite well aside from the lack of WiFi capability on a certain MacBook.'"

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  1. The Sugar UI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think I also saw a vmware image of the OLPC OS floating around a while back. But anyway, for those of you who haven't had a chance to explore the Sugar UI, it's a pretty different model that totally shitcans the "desktop" model for more of a community model, where one performs "activities" rather than run "applications". Worth taking a look at just to see another approach to how computers can be used from a user experience perspective.

  2. Re:OLPC Distro by dmbasso · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean, Python based official OLPC desktop.

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  3. Heads Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're going to download it, get the latest version instead.

    The lazy 'article' is just a link to an already out-of-date Endgadget post. Thank ThePopeLayton and Zonk for schilling instead of informing, and then climb the dirtree to find the latest.

    http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/

    see also
    http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/

  4. Re:OS too restrictive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You are restricted by ram and disk space. Full blown, or what I like to call legacy OS's do work but on a small screen just provide clutter. Sugar is highly optimized to the hardware. There are features you will not get with a standard distribution. People are used to being in boxes, which is the extent of critisim I have seen on the Sugar interface. Most people have not tries it which is obious in your post. The web browser does have location bar. It also doubles as the title bar. If you enter the location text entry you will see the url and can type in any url you wish. You can also just type in a search term. There is no reason to expose the url to those who just want to find the information they are looking for. It is an example of why hard core techies should not design user interfaces. They tend to make it more complicated than it needs to be and expose implementation details.

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