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OLPC Fork Sugar On a Stick Goes 1.0
Marten writes "It was more than a year ago that Walter Bender left OLPC and started SugarLabs.org. Now, the first version of the new project has been released. Sugar on a Stick is a USB drive that runs on Mac and PC-style hardware. 'The open-source education software developed for the "$100 laptop" can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to give aging PCs and Macs a new interface and custom educational software.' Bender said, 'What we are doing is taking a bunch of old machines that barely run Windows 2000, and turning them into something interesting and useful for essentially zero cost. It becomes a whole new computer running off the USB key; we can breathe new life into millions of decrepit old machines.'"
Hey, kids, don't learn how to use Windows or MacOS! Instead, learn to use an OS that you'll never see again, on any computer, ever, outside of this classroom!
What are they going to use it for? Polishing their FORTRAN skills?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
The OLPC package is nice, but promotion words promotion description blah blah DamnSmallLinux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ blah blah advertisement promo.
err.. how much are the DSL devs paying you for this promo? Let me know as I am interested in a piece of the action, dude.