$100 Laptop Platform Moves On

The BBC is reporting that Sugar Labs is planning on taking "Sugar," the XO laptop's innovative interface, to the next level and distribute to a broader audience. "Sugar is a user interface that allows children to collaborate even when working on different machines. For example, they can write documents or make music together. The open source software also contains a journal and automatically saves and backs up all data. [...] Sugar Labs will work closely with developers from the open source community to develop the user interface for other computers and operating systems. It has already been bundled with the most recent releases of the Ubuntu and Fedora Linux operating systems."

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The next level.

[fahrbot-bot]

Sugar Labs is planning on taking "Sugar" to the next level and distribute to a broader audience

It will also be renamed HFCS to increase marketability. :-)

attention racist slashdot posters

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:attention racist slashdot posters

[Toe, The]

by Anonymous Coward

It really should say "by courage-challenged person of an alternative identifier."

Re:Loose translation:

[ozmanjusri]

just a spoon full of Sugar will make the Windows go down

You don't need Sugar for that.

Re:Loose translation:

[RiotingPacifist]

Sugar only helps when the medication is oral, windows is much more like a large placebo suppository, it hurts to use and it doesn't do actually anything.