[Olpc-open] OLPC Linux for ordinary PCs

[Gerard Mourits]

Took a really short time to download and let it run on my mac....

http://kikkert-online.nl/olpc/

Regards,
Gerard


On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:51:47 -0500, "Ivan Krstić"
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> said:
> Hi Liam,
> 
> Liam Proven wrote:
> > As I understand it, the OLPC OS is Linux, basically a cut-down Fedora
> > with a new, custom UI on top called "Sugar". I believe that this is
> > based on X.11 but from the screenshots & so on I've seen, it is
> > nothing like any existing OS.
> 
> Sugar is a custom GUI running on top of a mostly stock X from X.org.
> 
> > [1] Is there a version of the OLPC OS for vanilla PC hardware?
> 
> You can emulate the OS on vanilla hardware easily:
> 
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation
> 
> Sugar and much of our other user-facing software is still in very early
> development stages, and not suitable for production use. It'll be
> another few months until we're at the point where people might want to
> run it full-time on their machines.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Krsti&#263; <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
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