Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Good for free software.

[Rob Barry]

Well, I don't think Sugar is the greatest of interfaces to be quite honest, perhaps it could be better to just distribute bunty on a stick, I think they already do in some places. The most important thing here I think is that it got onto the BBC news website, a bit more high profile than usual; I just fear  people will see the relatively simplistic interface of Sugar and assume that all Linux distributions are like that and be put off from trying Linux again. I think it's basically a bit of hype over nothing tbh :P

2009/6/25 Isabell Long <address@hidden>

Hi there,

Many of you who keep up with the news might already know this but I've
just been looking at the BBC News and seen this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm

I think it's really good and a great step for open source software and
Linux.  Edubuntu does more or less the same thing with offering
educational packages, but this system has had so much publicity over
the world in this new 'Laptop Per Child' scheme that people know more
about it and are more likely than to jump at this than Edubuntu or
other Linux based systems.

Also notice the spelling mistake in that article - 'OLPC software to
power aging PCs'.

Isabell.
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