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- Sugar on a Stick 0.84 (Windows)
- Sugar Labs offers ubiquitous access to the Sugar learning platform on a USB memory stick. The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to their personal Sugar experience on any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it is possible...
- Tags: Memory Stick, Microsoft Windows, USB, Computer, Sugar Labs, Productivity, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-04-24
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- What does open source community mean?
- What does open source community mean?Too much thought on companies.......not enough on individual efforts. I think some folk get too caught up in the business aspect of it all and forget the root. I use plenty of FOSS tools that are backed by no large corporate entity. They may sometimes...
- Tags: open source, F/OSS, developer, open-source community, joy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- XP on XO goes to Peru
- Peru will be starting a 9-month trial of OLPC's XO laptops running a "tweaked" version of Windows XP and Microsoft's low-cost version of Office, Microsoft Office 2003 Standard and Learning Essentials 1.0. While the feature in Ars Technica made no mention of the XO's innovative Sugar interface, it looks...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Diabetes is also heart disease
- Rigorous control of blood sugar won't save diabetics the heart ravages which come with the disease, new studies show. Instead diabetics need to treat themselves as we heart patients do, with statins, blood pressure control, diet, exercise and a baby aspirin before bedtime. Their current regimen for...
- Tags: Study, Diabetes, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Sugar coming to an EeePC or Classmate near you?
- BetaNews reported Thursday that Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, is in informal talks with four ULPC manufacturers to bring Sugar to their products. "The goal [now] is to make the Sugar [software] platform agnostic to whatever extent possible, so that Sugar doesn't have to be coupled to any...
- Tags: Software, Business Structures, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?
- A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...
- Tags: Operating System, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Who will win open source professor cage match?
- In this corner, the challenger, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, software guru, now with Sugar Labs, the champion of Linux, Walter Benderrrrr! And in this corner, the champion, the co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, best-selling author, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child OLPC,...
- Tags: Professor, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Hardware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nick Negroponte, Walter Bender, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- What is the future of Sugar?
- Walter Bender, who recently left OLPC amid ideological differences over the future of the Sugar interface and the use of Windows on the XO laptop, launched a new foundation last week to advance the UI independent of the XO. The Sugar Labs Foundation intends to continue working with OLPC,...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Sugar Labs Foundation, Sugar Labs Wiki, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?Who are we kidding?Windows will slowly but surely edge out Linux in this market. Let us not kid ourselves here.Can you imagine a Linux person developing applications for the kids. There is no challenge there - developing applications for 3rd world children...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, OLPC Project, Knowing Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- From fungus to fuel
- An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...
- Tags: Team, Biofuel, Researcher, T., Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world
- OLPC: the best designed notebook in the worldYou know, I was thingking the same thing. The OLPC would be great forschools right here in the good old US of A. I would think they should hire somebody to sell the idea to schools HERE. If we get a critical mass...
- Tags: Behar, notebook, Design Continuum, One Laptop Per Child project, Third World, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Dead hardware I can sink my teeth into
- No, this isn't some post-Halloween, sugar-induced bit of insanity. Over the last couple of months, I've received almost 20 laptops from the US Army Corps of Engineers. Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while know that USACE have been my best source of...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Computer, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Is SugarCRM open source?
- Is SugarCRM open source?SugarCRM is not open sourceWant prove? simple follow this link where John Roberts goes off on the guys from vtiger crm earlier this year for using code from SugarCRMhttp://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=7&highlight=sugarcrmQuote from John:vtiger is a lie - the legal product is called SugarSales from SugarCRM Inc.We do not think...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, open source, SugarCRM, CRM, contribution
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
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