[Olpc-open] Re dual boot XO: Olpc-open Digest, Vol 23, Issue 18

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> The matter of Windows booting off of an SD card came into the picture
> because supposedly some governments have asked for it.

Notably Egypt.

> However, booting
> XP off the card is half the picture. The stack isn't complete unless
> Windows runs Sugar. Along the same lines of argument, you could boot
> into Ubuntu and then run Sugar. The end goal is to run Sugar (and
> provide a constructionist environment for learning) and not Windows or
> Ubuntu. Whether this will actually happen remains to be seen.

Egypt didn't ask for Sugar on Windows, just for Windows. It's just
CYA. They can pretend that they are preparing children for the
workplace, and nobody can start an rwar about lack of Windows.
> Sameer
>
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

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