“The first One Laptop Per Child hardware devices are still
months from deployment, but you can sneak a peek at their Sugar
desktop environment and bundled applications by running an OS image
under an emulator. It’s a great way to finally get some hands-on
time with this long-anticipated project, even though it’s not
perfect.“The OLPC wiki has instructions for emulating the laptop via
several software schemes–QEMU, VMware, and Parallels Desktop. I
chose to download the VMware image, which is simple and runs inside
the freely available VMware Player…”
Linux.com: Child’s Play: Sneaking a Peek at the OLPC OS
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