“For Sugar Labs the XO-1.5 will mainly be yet another device
that they’ll want to support given that it’s likely to be one of
the best choices when it comes to low-cost portable hardware for
developing countries. However given the pitiful state of Sugar 0.84
on the XO-1 hardware (check mavrothal’s forum comments for more
information) – which won’t be improved until Fedora 12 is released
in autumn – I remain skeptical of just how well Sugar will run on
the XO-1.5.“Yes, I know technically Sugar 0.84 not running well on the XO
isn’t Sugar Labs’ fault but while the solutions might lie upstream,
downstream or in some sort of real collaboration between Sugar Labs
and OLPC the fact remains that currently 99% of Sugar’s installed
user-base can’t use the latest available version of the software
and is basically stuck in late 2008 as far as Sugar is
concerned.”
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