Sugar is a great little OS for little learners around the world. Its the way an OS and laptop should be introduced to children. Engineered for Children…what a concept.
Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, Amazon, XO, open source, globalization, trends
Tag: sugar labs
The OLPC program is moving through a rough time right now with the announced departures of initial key members and the new Microsoft announcement to bring XP onto the XO Laptops.
Walter Bender, former President of OLPC has launched Sugar Labs to promote the use of Sugar on more devices. Sugar is open source and I’m running it on my Powerbook via VMware’s Fusion. Sugar Lab’s approach: children should not be forced to learning a legacy operating system designed for adult computer programmers.
Lets face facts. XP is not designed for the world’s children living in poverty. The design is simple and perfect for children:
