I think we'd need to know the specific points of contention. I can't imagine which design decisions might work less well on PCs. Sugar remains significantly easier to use than standard PC operating systems...
Christian On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Eben Eliason <[email protected]>wrote: > "Sugar is a very good interface for the OLPC computers it was made > for, but many of the design decisions and interfaces don't work nearly > as well on standard PCs." > > I'm curious what people think about this statement. I tend to agree > that some design decisions were biased toward the XO-1 hardware, but I > don't think that any of the decisions actually fail on a "standard > PC", and I actually think Sugar scales pretty well in terms of > interaction. However, if we can assume their perspective and locate > some areas which aren't ideal on all hardware, perhaps we can work on > resolving them. Anyone have some examples? > > - Eben > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > > It claims to be a standalone home computer environment for kids, not a > > classroom environment. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> ,Josh williams wrote: > >>> Looks like a Microsoft project, they're hosted on IIS and the site is > >>> written in ASP. > >> > >> Might also be a bad choice of web hosting provider. The entire ISO > >> image contains free software. > >> > >> -- > >> // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ > >> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- [email protected] http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013
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