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:
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>>>>> I wonder why not Sugar.
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>>>> Gnome is the alternative. The initial desktop is still Sugar, but now
>>>> they give you an easier choice.
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>>>> It took me a bit of tinkering to ditch Sugar in favor of Fluxbox, and
>>>> still have the keys and buttons do their thing.
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>>> Sugar is not for adults; it's for young people's education.
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>> My daughter played with the OLPC briefly, and quickly figured Sugar out,
>> and was playing synthesized music with it.
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>> And she's a Windows user!
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>>> Windows has the same thing. Kind of. It's called Windows XP... with the
>>> Fisher Price UI. It's come with SOLITAIRe!!!1111
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>> XP ain't too bad. I don't like it, but many do.
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>> It purportedly works great on netbooks... just ask Microsoft :-D
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> 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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