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Cherrypal Offers Laptop for Under $100
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| PC maker Cherrypal has done something Nicholas
| Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child couldn't do:
| make a laptop that breaks the US$100 price
| barrier.
|
| Cherrypal on Tuesday announced a no-frills
| laptop called Cherrypal Africa, which includes
| hardware usually found in smartphones. It can
| run the Linux or Windows CE operating systems,
| which are also found on cell phones.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184709/cherrypal_offers_laptop_for_under_100.html
OLPC: A Steep Cost? Or a Profitable Edu-Investment?
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| Now let's look a little closer at textbooks.
| Even the poorest countries spend $20 annually
| per student on textbooks. Not necessarily $20
| per child, given the numbers of children not in
| school. But close enough for government work,
| since it is a duty of governments to support
| every child, and someday each of them will.
| California has taken the lead in the US in
| moving to electronic textbooks, but other
| countries are moving ahead, and substantial
| grant funding is becoming available.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/a_steep_cost_or_a_profitable_i.html
Recent:
Sugar on a Stick: What it means for e-books and education
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| âOoo4Kidsâ or Open Office for Children brings
| the power of word-processing, spreadsheets,
| and presentation tools to the Sugar learner.
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| With all of the Activities, Sugar users can
| share their work, locally in a classroom or
| globally, from Bangkok to Bogotà to Berlin.
|
| A new version of Sugar has just been released:
| Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry. Available for
| download, Sugar on a Stick can be loaded onto
| any ordinary 1Gb or greater flash drive to
| reboot any PC, netbook or recent Mac directly
| into the child-friendly Sugar environment
| without touching the existing installation.
| Sugar is also available for GNU/Linux
| distributions, runs under virtualization on
| Windows and Apple OS X, and features built-in
| classroom collaboration and automatic backup
| to a Journal.
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http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/07/sugar-on-a-stick-what-it-means-for-e-books-and-education/
Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2
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| Sugar Labs has announced the availability of
| Sugar on a Stick version 2, a major update
| of its Linux-based operating system for
| education that was originally developed for
| the One Laptop Per Child project. The new
| version introduces an ebook reader and a
| number of other important features.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/12/sugar-software-environment-gets-sweeter-with-version-2.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements
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| My first impression was how incredibly easy it
| is to obtain and install on your memory stick.
| Fedora has released a flash installation tool
| that handles downloading and imaging the flash
| drive on Windows systems. (There are
| installation instructions for other operating
| systems as well.) Not only is this tool
| available for use to install Sugar on a Stick,
| but you can also test drive other Fedora Linux
| distributions. The tool also allows you to
| partition off some space to save your documents
| to when in the Linux environment. Keep in mind
| that when you run this utility you will wipe
| anything on the memory stick.
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http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/12/new-sugar-on-a-stick-brings-much-needed-improvements/
Sugar on a Stick adds ebook support
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| Sugar Labs has revised the LiveUSB version of
| its education-focused "Sugar" Linux
| distribution. "Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry"
| offers simpler navigation, improved wireless
| networking, streamlined activities updating,
| better Gnash support for Adobe Flash, and
| activities designed for reading electronic
| books (ebooks), says the non-profit
| organization.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6214795577.html
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