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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. Re:Chrome OS by cinnamon+colbert · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    re your sig, the famous economist herbert simon once remarked, possibly sarcastically, that something that can't go on forever won't.
    I agree that economists are little more then PR guys for whoever pays them, but that doesn't mean they are guilty of what your sig says