Re: role of olpc/XO/sugar in debian-edu
Jonas Smedegaard schrieb:
> Hi Gerhard,
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:40:27AM +0200, gerhard.oettl.ml@ogersoft.at wrote:
>> There is an entry about OLPC in the debian-edu wiki
>> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/OLPC/About) and some activity for a
>> XO-Live-CD on skolelinux.
>
>> I think the project a valuable one.
>
>> My question is what are the plans with it for debian-edu? In which
>> kind is the XO system intended to be be usefull for debian-edu
>> (complment it, ...)?
>> Or are there no such plans?
>
> XO is a brand name of a laptop (promoted as the "$100 laptop").
>
> OLPC is an organisation developing and deploying XOs.
>
> The software developed to run on XOs is called Sugar. The development
> of sugar initially happened under the umbrella of OLPC, but is now
> branched off as its own independent organisation, Sugarlabs:
> http://sugarlabs.org/
Is sugar not "only" the desktop?
regards
gerhard
> Sugar is in the process of being packaged for Debian (primarily be me).
>
> Most probably what Skolelinux consider including/integrating with future
> releases of Skolelinux is Sugar, not XO hardware support. I did not
> write those wiki pages so others migh have more info on that.
>
>
> Hope that helps :-)
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> - Jonas
>
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