[SLL] Look ma, we're in the papers!

[Larry Bateman]

I just received an XO right before Xmas. I haven't had much time to play
with
with it yet. So far I like the hardware a lot more than the Sugar GUI that
runs
on it. I've read quite a few comments similar to mine, and people commonly
get trashed on lists for saying this, as the "experts" feel that the critics
don't
understand how an OS made for kids is supposed to behave. I find the
shrunken
Firefox browser especially limiting, with no bookmarks or toolbars. Also the
system would seem to be difficult to configure, and there's no clear way to
update it yet.

If anyone wants to take a look at one,  let me know.

- Larry


On 12/27/07, Glenn Stone <technoshaman at liawol.org> wrote:
>
>
> It seems that the OLPC project made the AP... from darkest Peru, no less:
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/345036_onelaptop27.html
>
> It's a good article, too; well-written, presenting detractors' concerns
> and
> the competition in addition to the "front end" of the story...
>
> Peru has ordered over a quarter-million of the things.  That's a lot of
> silicon, boys and girls.  And it's all running penguins.
>
> -- Glenn
>

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