Ha ha... but really, they look very harmonic and gentle. Like angels compared to the imps I teach;) (in Norway).By the looks of the design, and the testing, it looks like it can take a beating from an imp to. If this had been a XO with a touch screen, their exploring would have paid of.
Keep your windows desktop, install cygwin on it. Build a dead quiet system (eg VIA box) that can run 24/7 (I guess you have to sleep in the same room). Xubuntu is very good for a slow system. Play with it. It will serve you well as a web server, file server, development system, entertainment system etc. If your software runs well on this system, it will fly on a faster system:) You can control the linux system through cygwin (ssh, X) or VNC, and get the best from both worlds.
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Ha ha ... but really, they look very harmonic and gentle. Like angels compared to the imps I teach ;) (in Norway).By the looks of the design, and the testing, it looks like it can take a beating from an imp to. If this had been a XO with a touch screen, their exploring would have paid of.
A truly visionary project that might change education on a global scale. If they succeed, the XO-computer and/or Sugar will be as natural in the learning process as books, pen and paper are today. I realy belive it is the way to go in education. It is open source and much much more. Check out: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/41?gcli d=CK7El-aP4IsCFSayEAodJSKiYA , http://wiki.laptop.org/ and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Gui delines
Present on TravelMate C110.
Keep your windows desktop, install cygwin on it. Build a dead quiet system (eg VIA box) that can run 24/7 (I guess you have to sleep in the same room). Xubuntu is very good for a slow system. Play with it. It will serve you well as a web server, file server, development system, entertainment system etc. If your software runs well on this system, it will fly on a faster system :) You can control the linux system through cygwin (ssh, X) or VNC, and get the best from both worlds.
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and knowledge about the basic tools to do it.