Okay, I admit it, in the past few weeks and months I have sometimes caught myself thinking that things are really going down the drain with OLPC and Sugar. Mainly because I saw a huge gap that was not being addressed: Where was the connection to pilots? I always believed that creating Sugar Labs as ...

In a shift of strategy revealed in a Q & A from XO Camp, One Laptop Per Child will be dropping the Sugar User Interface in future XO laptop shipments for a version of Fedora or Windows XP. Sugar will only be one application of many. Let's hear Nicholas Negroponte explain the change in his answers to...

After listening to John Gilmore's opening keynote at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin at the end of December and generally thinking about the current modus operandi when it comes to open-source development an odd thought hit me: What if OLPC and Sugar Labs went for-profit? Now obvious...

Walter looking for Sugar Labs answers IT Wire reporter, Sam Varghese, recently wrote about how Sugar Labs tries to pick up the pieces now that its fully spun out of One Laptop Per Child. In his article, he chose to highlight a question posed to Walter Bender at LCA2009, Australia's premier Linux con...

We recently held a olpc / LTSP presentation in Vienna, which gave us the opportunity to be experimental and check the wonderful world of using Sugar on various platforms via LTSP. We hooked up 2 Acer Aspire One netbooks, a Thin Client (Artec), a laptop acting as LTSP and ejabberd server, along with ...

A harsh criticism of Sugar from Leigh Blackall can be found at My experience with OLPC in Tuvalu. I've extracted it in part below with some acknowledgments and rebuttals. List of things wrong with OLPCs Operating System: 1. The connectivity metaphor on start up is inappropriate for people in areas w...

Filed under: Laptops We know he's just thinking about the children but damn, if Walter Bender's latest move doesn't smack of retribution for Negroponte's XP-lust. Having successfully spun himself out from under NickNeg's OLPC, Bender's UI now owned by his non-profit Sugar Labs might just end up on I...