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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."

3 of 81 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Chrome OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I bet a lot of OLPCs go to Africa. When the delivery dude gets to Africa, does he ever say "WOW! Look at all the niggers!!"

  2. 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)

  3. You3 FAIL 1t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of BSD/GOS. A