“We’ve heard a lot about the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, which aims to provide a $100 laptop for developing nations, and we’ve heard a bit about its Sugar interface and other technical abilities, but recently we spent the time with QEMU and a test build of the OLPC XO operating system (Fedora based) to see how it really shapes up.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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A brief look at Sugar
Phoronix managed to get a quick look at a beta of the Linux based OS, Sugar, that will be on the $100 laptops the OLPC plans to distribute. There wasn’t enough for them to do a full review, but the screenshots give you an idea what this … rather unique … distro might look like.
