A computer in every pot

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

The user interface is called Sugar and not the OS itself but a good 
article nevertheless. BBC published a couple of articles with more 
technical information and videos featuring Christopher Blizzard, lead 
OLPC team in Red Hat.

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9539441

"If the ingenuity of the XO’s hardware is impressive, the machine’s 
software is truly ground-breaking. Red Hat, the world’s largest Linux 
distributor, has provided an extremely compact version of its Fedora 
operating system, called Sugar, that uses a mere 130 megabytes of the 
XO’s flash memory. By comparison, Windows XP requires 1.65 gigabytes."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6908946.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6679431.stm

Rahul

[John Babich]

On 7/28/07, Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> Hi
>
> The user interface is called Sugar and not the OS itself but a good
> article nevertheless. BBC published a couple of articles with more
> technical information and videos featuring Christopher Blizzard, lead
> OLPC team in Red Hat.
>
> http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9539441

Excellent articles, Rahul.

Just to be picky, the above link is from The Economist, the
highly-respected British business magazine. To its credit, the
Economist magazine does explicitly mention
Fedora.

The BBC articles are quite good in their details and illustrations,
including the Flash video clip of Chris Blizzard.

All in all, great publicity for the OLPC and Fedora, although Fedora
is referenced
by a strangely obscure phrase in the BBC article: "The laptop has a
bespoke Linux operating system (OS) developed by leading open source
software company Red Hat."

Perhaps, the OLPC XO laptop will feature in an episode of BBC World's Click TV
show in the near future. Let's hope they mention Fedora in the show.

Best Regards,

John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Project

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Rahul Sundaram escribió:
> Hi
>
> The user interface is called Sugar and not the OS itself but a good 
> article nevertheless. BBC published a couple of articles with more 
> technical information and videos featuring Christopher Blizzard, lead 
> OLPC team in Red Hat.
>
> http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9539441
>
> "If the ingenuity of the XO’s hardware is impressive, the machine’s 
> software is truly ground-breaking. Red Hat, the world’s largest Linux 
> distributor, has provided an extremely compact version of its Fedora 
> operating system, called Sugar, that uses a mere 130 megabytes of the 
> XO’s flash memory. By comparison, Windows XP requires 1.65 gigabytes."
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6908946.stm
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6679431.stm
>
> Rahul

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't had the opportunity to watching the Sugar 
UI in action in the OLPC. However, I still don't like it that the BBC 
uses codecs that make it difficult for users of 64-bit systems to watch 
(not all plugins available are capable of displaying Windows Media video 
the way they send it, and there is no Real Player plugin for 64-bit 
systems). Still the Flash videos I could watch, and loved them.