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OLPC Sugar software goes independent

Daniel Fleshbourne on 19 May 2008 - 11:46 · 4 comments & 2924 views

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The former president of software and content at One Laptop per Child has launched Sugar Labs in the wake of the project's decision to ship with Windows XP. Walter Bender said that Sugar Labs Foundation is being established to further extend Sugar, the acclaimed open source software platform originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop.

Sugar Labs will focus on providing a software "ecosystem" that enhances learning on the XO laptop as well as other laptops distributed by other companies, such as the ASUS Eee PC. The platform has already been bundled with the most recent release of the Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux distributions.

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#1 vetmarkjensen on 19 May 2008 - 13:19
Hmmm... I can only imagine what Bender said as he took the Sugar development independent of the OLPC project.
#2 Magallanes on 19 May 2008 - 13:46
Lol, sugar will become a "Microsoft Bob" (slow, useless and dispensable).
#3 +TCLN Ryster on 19 May 2008 - 15:25
...in the wake of the project's decision to ship with Windows XP.

Shouldn't that be "...in the wake of the project's decision to ship a Windows XP version of the OLPC."?

Unless something's changed that I haven't read about and they are now making ONLY XP versions?
#4 Lasker on 19 May 2008 - 16:36


Not bad for an OS interface!

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