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New OLPC Laptop 1.5 Dual-Boots Sugar, Gnome Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the but-gnome-is-for-children dept.

griffjon writes "The new hardware release (you can read about the upgrade here) also comes with a dual-boot option. Start rejoicing now; it's not XP or Sugar (the native, education-centric OS) — it's Sugar or Gnome. And of course there are other homebrew distributions like Xtra Ordinary, built off of Debian."

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  1. Memory Image boot - why not by RichMan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The hardware is fixed. I don't see why boot can't be just load/uncompress an active image.