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 laptop”, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘open source’
25 Jul
Is Sugar The Laptop Or The Operating System?
25 Jul
Microsoft Not So Altruistic After All
I recently wrote that Microsoft suddenly released some code to the open source community. Turns out their motives weren’t as pure as first thought:
Sometimes, some things are just too good to be true. Earlier this week, Microsoft made a relatively stunning announcement that it would contribute some 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
14 Jun
Digital Textbooks
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing for California to adopt digital textbooks in favor if printed ones. This is an effort to help reign in an out of control budget deficit. This makes perfect sense. We expect our children to cart around half their body weight using textbooks that are often out of date before they [...]
