news is out today that Microsoft is about ready to release Windows XP on the OLPC device. There's a video of it and they put alot of spit and polish into the video so you know the marketing people are involved. Let's see if any of you can catch the flaw in the video.
http://gizmodo.com/391054/windows-xp-on-olpc-xo-laptop-now-official Now, if you would like to play with Sugar on your own computer, here's some tricks to get it working inside of your existing desktop on Ubuntu. 1) sudo apt-get install sugar sugar-activities note: you can also use a GUI tool and might need to add the universe or multiverse repository 2) sudo apt-get install xephyr 3) create a file named xephyr.xinitrc in your home directory with this line in it: exec /usr/bin/sugar 4) create a file named xeph in your home directory with these lines in it and make it executable: #!/bin/bash xinit ~/xephyr.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600 -dpi 72 5) run ~./xeph You should now have something like what you see in the attached image. PS, F1, F2, F3, F4 map to Neighborhood, Group, Home, ? F1 will show you who is connected to your network sharing server and F3 is where you start your activities which are located across the bottom of the screen. Doug -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
