Confirmed: Kids like Sugar better than XP
Filed under: Laptops
It’s hardly a scientific pop quiz, but when a Cnet editor’s 8 year old daughter was given the choice amidst an OLPC XO laptop running Windows XP or the Linux-based Sugar UI, Sugar was the winner. As Cnet points out, either OS when properly incorporated into the teaching curriculum should serve the children of developing nations equally well. Only one, however, promises
P.S. Amazon’s Give One, Get One program will be limited to Linux according to Cnet and confirmed in the OLPC Wiki — no dual-boot for you Santa.
[Thanks, Justin G.]
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Original post by Thomas Ricker
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