[Linux-aus] OLPC Australia technical mailing list

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 30 September 2010 15:02, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 12:29 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>> The Sugar environment runs on any PC, and you can also run the OS in a
>> VM.
>
> And Sugar Labs have invested time and energy in developing the sugar on
> a stick project.  Making 'owning' the computer environment rather than
> the hardware, more accessible.
>
> The idea being that schools could purchase class sets of cheap netbooks,
> or utilise existing computer labs, but every student could have a much
> cheaper USB stick from which to run sugar at school or at home...
> (or something to that effect)
>
> See - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

That's right. Sugar is no longer bound to XOs. In fact teachers in
Australia use Sugar on a Stick with projectors and interactive
whiteboards, to demonstrate to kids what they can do with their XOs
(XOs don't have VGA ports, so they can't be plugged directly into
external displays).


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