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Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
Nicholas Negroponte is at it again, giving an interview in Singapore and discussing the major failings of the OLPC project. I was struck by one thing that he said: 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 [...]
20 Jul
Microsoft Stuns Linux Community
This is absolutely stunning: In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide the hooks for [...]
26 Jun
Sugar On A Stick
The MIT Technology Review has published an article detailing the latest efforts on behalf of the Sugar Labs project. The newest version of the Sugar operating system is designed to install on a USB thumb drive or CDROM. If it is installed on a thumb drive then user files can be written to it and [...]
