On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:46:20 -0400 (EDT), Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Tom Hoffman wrote: > > > I just wonder if we couldn't get Sugar onto our existing systems > > before we try to convince our state governments to buy a million > > laptops (and Quanta to sell us a million laptops?)? It seems like an > > easier bar to cross. > > > > --Tom > > I think that Sugar has a-ways to go before it can be considered a > panacaea. If you guys think it's legitimately something that educators in > the US will go for as a Desktop OS for the classroom, we could certainly > think about repackaging it for broader use. > > The nice thing about the OLPC, of course, is that the hardware profile is > 100% known -- which allows the developers to optimize Sugar for the OLPC. > That said, it certainly runs on other platforms -- my laptop running FC6, > for instance. I am not too sure the best platform is Sugar. I am not the most educated as to the workings of sugar, so maybe I am talking out of my realm here. But Sugar looked to be prepackaged with certain apps and functionality. I would still want to be able to customize my application offerings for deployment instead of using a predetermined application set and I may also want to tweak the interface to fit our users needs. But maybe sugar isn't as flat as it looked to me at first. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Fedora-education-list mailing list Fedora-education-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list
