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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. WHY NOT WINDOWS 7? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows 7 has been re-engineered for netbooks, I got it to run on my 486 DX II no problem. I guess the education community decided to discriminate Microsoft after they give out so much in cheap software (i.e. $19 for EIGHT windows 7 serial keys via MSDNAA)