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OLPC Fork Sugar On a Stick Goes 1.0

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-easily-lost-usb-stick-per-child dept.

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.'"

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  1. Suger is like drugs? by daid303 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Going by the pictures I would keep this away from children:
    http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners

    1. Re:Suger is like drugs? by montyzooooma · · Score: 4, Funny

      Going by the pictures I would keep this away from children: http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners

      Arrrgh. I need to dim the lights, put on some Pink Floyd and look at that comic strip again.