Microsoft probably deserves to win. :-( Problems can't get fixed unless you admit that they exist. This may require the loss of a few sacred cows.
Responding to several people here... I fear it was not a joke to suggest that "Sugar on MIPS" would somehow be compelling. Let's not be totally out of touch with planet Earth. People rightly ask what an XO with Sugar can actually do, and the answer is "not much". It's simply nuts to think Sugar is competitive with XP. Within the Sugar community, certain activities are adored. They hold privileged positions, generally being installed be default despite not being of a utility (shell, browser) nature. They even get to hide their bloat by being allowed to require RPMs that are of no use to anything else. They are terribly slow. They are terribly complicated. It's really offensive to insist that other people (children, the poor, dark-colored people, them foreigners...) be forced to use stuff which you yourself find to be inadequate for your own daily (exclusive) use. Performance issues start here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all Why should we rally around Sugar? Microsoft is getting a chance because of Sugar. When something doesn't work, and you just keep insisting, how is that going to get anywhere? A truly amazing opportunity (Linux-only laptops for kids) has been squandered. Tweaking GNOME for the small screen and unreliable pointer would be a workable plan to save Linux on the XO. Those of you without a Linux background might not know it, but the OS can actually be rather easy to use! It can even perform well and allow you to find your files. Right now we're looking at an awkward environment that eats most of the RAM to provide a level of attractiveness similar to that of GEM, GeOS, Apple GS/OS, Microsoft Windows 1.0, and Apple LisaOS. (more pixels, less polish) It comes down to this: do you want to be "right" about Sugar so badly that you would rather let XP win than support any alternate Linux GUI? If you're that stubborn, XP wins without a fight. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
