Ugh
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| techiem2 Apr 24, 2008 9:14 AM EDT |
Ok, I understood the whole "If MS wants to try to get XP working on the OLPC, that's their right" thing.
I even understand having the option to have the OLPC Dual boot Sugar and XP, after all, that's choice and exposure to both worlds.
But, making it so that XP is required and Sugar just runs on top of it?
Now you're right back to being an MS Lockin tool. |
| tuxchick Apr 24, 2008 9:45 AM EDT |
'one excuse per child' says it all. Notice how the anti-FOSS buzzwords are suddenly coming out of Mr. Negroponte's mouth, like "purism" and a bunch of think-of-the-children guff. LWN has the better, more informative article as usual: http://lwn.net/Articles/279288/ |
| thenixedreport Apr 24, 2008 1:21 PM EDT |
I'm busy at the moment, so I'll take your word for now TC, as I find Sam to be a bit over the top. At least I can admit when I'm wrong in my opinion and/or approach from time to time. |
| tuxchick Apr 24, 2008 2:04 PM EDT |
Yeah, Sam V. is more heat than light. Here's another article with more meat on it:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewA...Quoting: OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte also told The Associated Press on Tuesday that an insistence upon using only free, open-source software had hampered the XO's usability and scared away potential adopters.... Sigh. |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 24, 2008 4:01 PM EDT |
Not hitting the $100 mark is such a huge failure ... |
| thenixedreport Apr 24, 2008 7:41 PM EDT |
Well, I attempted to use the contact form on the Australian site (laptop.org.au) and (*gasp*), I was given an immediate answer! I asked the following: Quoting:Greetings. I would like to know if there are any specific e-mail addresses or other methods of contact for those who are members of the press. Thank you for your time. To which he replied: Quoting:Not as yet -- we're still in the process of booting up the organisation, and the contact form on the website is fine for any queries. I thought journalists were supposed to have a degree of flexibility. Guess Sam is proving me wrong (shrugs). |
| gus3 Apr 24, 2008 9:14 PM EDT |
Quoting:we're still in the process of booting up the organisationSounds like a very slow process. Are they trying to run a 2.6 kernel on an 80386? /rimshot Thanks, I'll be here until Friday. |
| azerthoth Apr 25, 2008 6:15 AM EDT |
Not to put too fine a point on things, I finally got my XO a month ago. I played with it a little bit, took a few minutes learning the UI and how to get it attached to my wireless network. 3 days later I closed the lid with the final conclusion that overall, as shipped, it's a POS. I wanted to like it, I tried. It started with the first annoyance of the keyboard and its size forcing me to move to another computer and doing any serious poking about via ssh. Then for being an educational piece it has an amazing lack of educational software. I'll probably dig it out again later and see if something can be done to actually make the thing usable. I never though I would say it, XP would be a significant improvement. As it is, it will probably end up being relagated to being a print server and stuffed inta the corner until it dies. |
| jdixon Apr 25, 2008 8:09 AM EDT |
azerthoth, it sounds like you'd like the Eee better. Which reminds me, my wife got hers about 3 weeks ago. I need to ask her to do a writeup for LXer. |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 25, 2008 9:22 AM EDT |
Looking forward to the Eee report. A friend of mine has one but didn't get on well with the small keyboard. |
| Scott_Ruecker Apr 25, 2008 12:43 PM EDT |
I second Steve's "Looking forward to the Eee report" ;-) |
| jdixon Apr 25, 2008 1:11 PM EDT |
> I second Steve's "Looking forward to the Eee report" I've asked Meredith. She's thinking about it. I can't make any promises, as any married person here knows. |
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