[OLPC-Philippines] One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality

James Shields james at marasbaras.com
Mon Jun 15 04:49:53 EDT 2009


Cool.  By the way, I'm sure this has been asked before ... could someone
point me to an online doc that explains why Sugar is better for learning
than Windows, OSX, GNOME, etc.?

James Shields


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[mailto:olpc-philippines-bounces at lists.laptop.org]On Behalf Of Jerome
Gotangco
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:09 PM
To: OLPC Philippines/Pilipinas grassroots
Subject: Re: [OLPC-Philippines] One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jerome Gotangco<jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:53 PM, James Shields<james at marasbaras.com>
wrote:
>> Given that it sounds like Negroponte is going to have an XO-2 for us all,
>> I'm not sure what to suggest in the short term.  Does anyone have specs?
>
> First, we'll have a refresh of the original XO with a speed bump
> (CPU/Memory) as well as a storage bump (Flash storage) what will make
> things more efficient in the current design before the XO-2. It will
> also run Fedora 11 booting to Sugar with an option to boot to full
> Gnome desktop which makes the machine more usable for real world use
> (in case the kid using Sugar eventually outgrows the environment).
>
> jerome
>

By the way, just to add, the recently released Fedora 11 has Sugar
making any machine running Fedora 11 become learning machines using
the Sugar environment.

jerome
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