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Walter Bender — Taking Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop

Posted by timothy on from the everything-on-a-stick-meat-on-a-stick dept.

waderoush writes "While the One Laptop Per Child Foundation tries to reboot after drastic staff cuts, Sugar, the original open-source graphical interface for OLPC's XO Laptop, is rapidly evolving into a stand-alone learning platform that can run on any PC. Walter Bender, who left OLPC last year to start the non-profit Sugar Labs, has given a detailed interview about 'Sugar on a Stick' — the USB drive that allows any machine to boot into the Sugar environment. Bender also describes the Sugar upgrades coming in March — including better tools for file management, portfolio presentations, and Python code hacking — and talks about his hopes for expanding Sugar Labs and getting Sugar into more classrooms than OLPC can reach through its hardware."

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  1. Water Bender? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Southern or northern water tribe?

  2. eh? by djupedal · · Score: 3, Funny

    >"...the USB drive that allows any machine to boot into the Sugar environment."

    Any machine? Like a bowling ball polisher? Gotta say....wow - just wow!

    1. Re:eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Like a bowling ball polisher?

      Imagine a beowulf cluster of...

      aw, forget it.

  3. lemonade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does this mean Sugar is making lemonade out of lemons?

  4. I'd have called it by BigHungryJoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" and infused it with nanotech, but that's just me.

  5. Sugar on a Stick? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    And here I thought "Mandriva" was the worst name in OSS.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    1. Re:Sugar on a Stick? by Enoxice · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, I would've called it "Churro." But that's just me...

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      Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
    2. Re:Sugar on a Stick? by je+ne+sais+quoi · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's no problem. We'll just refer to it by an initialism, "SOS".

      oh wait....

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      Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the war room!
    3. Re:Sugar on a Stick? by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Sugar on a Stick" would be a great name for a 70's blackploitation film.

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      It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
  6. Re:XO Security Model by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Funny

    What could possibly go wrong?