Sugar is a fork of OLPC, so it should be able to run on anything fast enough to run windows 98 - I'd say PII 300Mhz, and 128ram should be enough for a basic setup. But keep in mind that OLPC is intended for education of little kids, not general purpose computing - so a high school student won't be writing a term paper using Sugar. Depending on the hardware specs of donated computers I believe it may be more useful to install a more general purpose distribution on the hard drives. Of course, in addition to that it's always possible to include live cd's of various distributions as well as off-line repositories of open source software.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Mark Donoghue<[email protected]> wrote: > Given the recent thread about re-purposing old PC's for schools I thought > you'd find this article at Technology Review interesting. > > http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22919/ > > I found it on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) this morning. It's about > Sugar, the UI that was developed for OLPC. > > Has anyone on the list played with this project? What do you think would be > the minimum hardware requirement to put together a diskless workstation to > run this? > > -Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jul 1 - Linux High Performance Computing > Aug 5 - TBD > Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV > -- - Max Shkurygin "Question with boldness even the existence of God; because if there be one, He must approve the homage of Reason rather than that of blindfolded Fear." Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 1 - Linux High Performance Computing Aug 5 - TBD Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV
