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Negroponte Sees Sugar As OLPC's Biggest Mistake
griffjon writes "In an interview, Nicholas Negroponte claims that the biggest mistake OLPC made was the revolutionary Red Hat-based Sugar desktop environment — instead, he says, they should have built Sugar as an application that ran on a 'vanilla' Linux OS. Some disagree."
maybe partner up with Google to use ARM processor based ChromeOS laptops and design in the OLPC design with the string pulled power charger and less expensive display, etc.
Each village gets a web server with wireless Internet access that can run Cloud applications in Google Chrome to save on storage space and invent new Cloud applications to run with Google Chrome. Each web server per village could have Google Apps for domain names installed or whatever software OLPC and Google develop for the developing world to use.
That way people and children with other laptops and computers can use Google Chrome or another web browser to tie into the village web server or school web server and share applications and data on the Cloud.
Linux without Sugar should be able to run Chrome OS and Google Chrome web browsers, and they have to redesign the Sugar apps to work with the Cloud and via a web server. OLPC is a neat project, but they need to learn from their mistakes and adapt and innovate their way out of this mess. I am sure the OLPC XO laptops can be reflashed with a Chrome OS build to replace Sugar and still use the old hardware.
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As an OLPC owner I can say RH sucks too. Changed to Ubuntu and the the boot time was about 20% less. Overall feel of the OS is much more responsive.
IMHO: The "Leaders" of third world countries range from ignorant and useless through evil and despotic all the way to dangerous religious fanatics, and all of them have more interest in avoiding assassination and embezzling the gross national product of their little steaming pieces of Hell on Earth!
They, like their counterparts in the US of A, do not give a tinkers damn about anybody but themselves.
I need my meds..
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd