Comments on: Sugar Beyond the XO Laptop: Walter Bender on OLPC, Sucrose 0.84, and “Sugar on a Stick”

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:34:41 +0000

Basically, I’m having an extremely difficult time getting Sugar** running. The flash drive option is awash because changing the bios booting order is more than tricky; the CD option is beyond my understanding. I’m not advanced in my understanding of computers, but I should think such a program should be absolutely easy. At least as easy as they make it sound. How do you run the ISO run CD
for instance is readily detail….Makes me wonder….

By: Netputing » How to run OLPC software from a USB stick

Netputing » How to run OLPC software from a USB stick — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:02:51 +0000

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» Day 4: Up and Down The Codex 2 Project — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:26 +0000

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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:21:00 +0000

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By: ck

ck — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:37:03 +0000

# mark — 2/5/09 4:01 pm
“I refuse to read the rest of the article based on this statement alone. Mine runs DebXO/Gnome, not Sugar. Goodbye”
—
Way to go. Not sure you understand the intent here, as you’re also not an 8 yr old kid in a developing nation. Good you’ve found a nice way to stay close minded though.

By: Robert Buderi

Robert Buderi — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:21:46 +0000

Thanks Dave, I have fixed the link for Wade, who is out on his next interview.

By: Dave Marney

Dave Marney — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:56:02 +0000

The link to the TAPortfolio Activity is broken. It should be http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TAPortfolio

Thanks for the interesting article.

By: Wolfgang Rohrmoser

Wolfgang Rohrmoser — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:53:58 +0000

I also want to mention the XO-LiveCD project.

You just download an ISO file burn it on a CD
and you have a running OLPC/Sugar desktop
with more than 50 activities, collaboration and
much more …

Since about 6 month there is also a script included
which flashes the image on a USB Stick. The
documentation also explains how the image can
be easly installed on harddisk parallel to existing
other operation systems ….

By: OLPC:n Sugar on karvasta makeaa - Tietokone.fi

OLPC:n Sugar on karvasta makeaa - Tietokone.fi — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:49:54 +0000

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By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:59:09 +0000

mark: Funny you should say that given that later in the article they specifically mention that people who are interested in other things besides education can run different distros on it.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:01:34 +0000

“the XO laptop would be useless without Sugar”

I refuse to read the rest of the article based on this statement alone. Mine runs DebXO/Gnome, not Sugar. Goodbye

By: Fernando Botelho

Fernando Botelho — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:37:43 +0000

In 2006 I compared the price of a basic PC that year with the equivalent in 1997 and did the same for software designed to be used by the blind. Interestingly enough the price of a basic PC had gone down by over 80% (adjusted for inflation) and the price of software used by most blind students went up by more than 20%. Moral of the story, it is not the hardware we need to worry about, it is the software.

The same dramatic price drop is taking place with laptops in general and USB Flash drives in particular; and the latter has a much smaller ecological footprint not to mention portability and reduced theft concerns, etc.

Today I only worry about the software because there are billions being spent to make the hardware better and cheaper while FOSS programs are hard to get a hold of if you are not technically sophisticated. That is why I have adopted the Live USB Flash drive strategy as well; cheap portable and with all the advantages of FOSS. Sugar will now be vastly more successful than OLPC, you can be sure of that.

Well done!

By: ms

ms — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:09:33 +0000

I wish I could get the Pippy activity by itself so I could use it on other OSs. It’s a great little python learning program that those guys put into the OLPC.