CNET News: Sugar: $100 Laptop’s Bittersweet Interface

“Educational hardware pioneer One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has
its hands full juggling priorities–developing nations, pricing and
user interface (UI) among them. Nick Negroponte’s nonprofit
recently published screenshots and test downloads of its
freshly-designed UI, called Sugar. Built from scratch at Red Hat,
it features a plump little stick figure in the center–representing
the user–other stick figures to indicate nearby users in the
wireless network, and tasks or programs arrayed in a circle around
the central figure.

“Bloggers and open-source aficionados, international do-gooders
and operating system junkies are having a field day…”

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