OLPC upgrades

[david at lang.hm]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Peter Robinson wrote:

>> or just run other distros (like many of us are doing)
>>
>> however, even those of us who run other distros (and see the differences)
>> would like to see the Sugar 'distro' improve.
>
> The sugar "distro" is basically Fedora, with a few modifications for
> things like the security that OLPC uses. Sugar is actually the GUI
> that sits on top of the distro.

yes, but those modifications are significant. I know that Sugar is the 
name of the GUI, but there are still things that don't work in any other 
environment (not as many as there used to be, and they are being 
addressed), and I don't know of a better name to use for the whole set.

David Lang