Sean:
I thought the quote on the link
http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/hardware/0,39043471,62056166,00.htm
said that:
*Sugar as OS was 'mistake'*
SINGAPORE--Putting a crank-shaft on the XO laptop was a mistake, but
the biggest mistake was not having Sugar run as an application "on a
vanilla Linux laptop", said OLPC founder and chairman Nicholas
Negroponte.
"Sugar should have been an application [residing] on a normal
operating system," he told ZDNet Asia in an interview. "But what we
did...was we had Sugar do the power management, we had Sugar do the
wireless management--it became sort of an omelet. The Bios talked
directly with Sugar, so Sugar became a bit of a mess."
Negroponte added: "It should have been much cleaner, like the way they
offer [it] on a stick
<http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62055525,00.htm> now."
The availability of the Sugar interface via a USB could possibly
herald a "naked" XO laptop in future, said Negroponte, currently on
leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
NOT that sugar was a mistake....
Tom Gilliard
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