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Re: [News] iUnika's Cheap, Lightweight and Solar Powered ** LINUX** Netbooks

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 19 May 2009 02:37 : \____
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>> 
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>   this bit o' wisdom:
>> 
>>>>> I wonder why not Sugar.
>>>> 
>>>> Gnome is the alternative.  The initial desktop is still Sugar, but now
>>>> they give you an easier choice.
>>>> 
>>>> It took me a bit of tinkering to ditch Sugar in favor of Fluxbox, and
>>>> still have the keys and buttons do their thing.
>>>  
>>> Sugar is not for adults; it's for young people's education.
>> 
>> My daughter played with the OLPC briefly, and quickly figured Sugar out,
>> and was playing synthesized music with it.
>> 
>> And she's a Windows user!
>> 
>>> Windows has the same thing. Kind of. It's called Windows XP... with the
>>> Fisher Price UI. It's come with SOLITAIRe!!!1111
>> 
>> XP ain't too bad.  I don't like it, but many do.
>> 
>> It purportedly works great on netbooks... just ask Microsoft :-D
> 
> Microsoft beefed up those "netbooks" and made them a lot more expensive.
> The early ASUS Eees were underpowered for Windows.

They still are. Sadly the new Asus Aspire model only has a hard drive, and
is naturally more expensive.



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