[sugar] Performance

[Albert Cahalan]

Greg Smith writes:

> I just got word from a decision maker in Uruguay that they are very
> concerned about "performance". They say that Sugar is slow. I'm probing
> to get more details but I want to evaluate the options in parallel.
...
> This may cost us significantly if we don't show improvement. Send me
> ideas. Any quick wins would be considered, even if they have a downside
> in another metric.

Two alternatives to offer:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Edubuntu
http://edubuntu.org/

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xfce
http://www.xfce.org/

It's not Sugar, but it's not XP either. I hope even the Sugar
fans will agree that if pushing Sugar means a win for XP, then
pushing Sugar is not the thing to do.