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Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO
griffjon writes "OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read."
Eat my shorts slashdot !!!
I think that Vista hasn't gone far enough with pop-up boxes. Window's users are stupid so they don't always know what they want. I think every time a user clicks or types or even tries to breath windows should ask the user if they really want to do that. Now that that is out of the way. I hope they keep supporting XP. At least until after I have to get a new desktop so that I can have a dual boot, with some sort of Linux.
Sugar is god-awful slow. It's not even a real program; it's just a Python script.
Sugar has this thing called the journal. It "manages" your files with less sophistication than the 1984 Mac. There are no directories. It's all one big pile. It's full of spam even; every time you run a program you get a useless file in your journal.
that GNU/Linux is not for children...
Now, mod me down freely. My karma can't get any worse...
Why is it that whenever a Linux user writes something about Windows, they get it wrong? WTF does the author mean by suggesting you have to click "Safely Remove Hardware" to remove a thumb drive in Windows XP? Write caching is disabled by default on removable drives, and that means you can just pull them out. I think the author hasn't used Windows XP.
Why would they do that? They are out to put the XO and OLPC out of business or whatever they are doing. We know that XP on this is going to suck and it'll take $30-$50 more hardware to make it even close to usable. That alone is enough to destroy the OLPC if they put all their eggs in the Microsoft basket. And seeing how Microsoft spent $25 million to tie the Egyptian government to Microsoft Windows, they've got plenty more to tie up a whole bunch of poor countries.
I only hope that Sugar lives on. It really looks like a great entry level desktop for educational use. Teachers wasting hours on teaching kids what buttons to push in Windows is not teaching them anything useful.
And what is with these idiots constantly saying that teaching kids Windows XP is going to prepare them for when they get into the work force. For many of these kids, that's ten years out and there is no way Microsoft's software is going to act the same in ten years. Besides, they are supposed to be using the XO for learning about the world, not how Microsoft decided to tie you to their money train. IMO.
LoB
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Hopefully you uneducated around here will understand that OLPC hardware will eventually catch up to Vista.
Hardware gets cheaper over time(duhhh), but if you have been using Linux you probably wouldn't understand anyting about hardware upgrades as you have been left in the dark without drivers.
Basically, the cold hard reality is that OLPC used to be a Linux project and it is hilarious now to come here to see all the bitterness towards it now that XP has taken over.
Vista is bloat though, it is just too bad the dummies around here tested it on crappy old hardware for 5 seconds when it works perfectly fine on modern hardware made in the last 2-3 years. Your agenda is showing and when you mentally stress out your mind enough that you hate Microsoft, you just turn into a stamping robot that is predictable.
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