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5 Minutes with Sugar (OLPC Desktop)


Had the opportunity to try out Sugar Labs Sugar Sugar environment for the One Laptop Per Child program. It’s a simple educationally-oriented desktop now easily installed on a USB thumb-drive . My take? Alright for kids in a group, but too limited for students above elementary school.

...and now

What others are saying.

Thanks for the review. You’ve done a nice job of telling the core Sugar story.

I’ll have to investigate why you were not able to find the bulleted-list tool in the word processor; apparently it is not as easy to discover as it should be.

Regarding the “limited” number of applications you can run on Sugar, you are correct in pointing out that only a few hundred activities are “Sugarized”—able to take full advantage of Sugar collaboration and the Journal—but almost any application that runs in Linux runs in Sugar. You just need to install them and launch them from the Terminal activity. There is even a Sugarized version of Wine, so you can run many Windows applications in Sugar as well.

Regards.

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