On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:46:20 -0400 (EDT), Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Tom Hoffman wrote:
I just wonder if we couldn't get Sugar onto our existing systems before we try to convince our state governments to buy a million laptops (and Quanta to sell us a million laptops?)? It seems like an easier bar to cross.
--Tom
I think that Sugar has a-ways to go before it can be considered a panacaea. If you guys think it's legitimately something that educators in the US will go for as a Desktop OS for the classroom, we could certainly think about repackaging it for broader use.
The nice thing about the OLPC, of course, is that the hardware profile is 100% known -- which allows the developers to optimize Sugar for the OLPC. That said, it certainly runs on other platforms -- my laptop running FC6, for instance.
I am not too sure the best platform is Sugar. I am not the most educated as to the workings of sugar, so maybe I am talking out of my realm here. But Sugar looked to be prepackaged with certain apps and functionality. I would still want to be able to customize my application offerings for deployment instead of using a predetermined application set and I may also want to tweak the interface to fit our users needs. But maybe sugar isn't as flat as it looked to me at first.