| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to SugarNegroponte on OLPC's commitment to SugarPosted Apr 23, 2008 18:54 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)Parent article: Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to Sugar I'd be happy to see Sugar running on top of more platforms. I got an XO for my daughter, but many of the coolest apps require another machine running Sugar; it would be cool to be able to run a second instance from an ordinary Linux laptop. And I do need to confess our impurity: my 10-year-old daughter happily runs Linux, but she would be much less happy without the proprietary Flash plugin that lets her play large numbers of games, or the non-free codecs that allow videos to play. She plays with the XO some, but Flash has been an issue for her. swfdec is improving, but chasing a moving target is going to be tough.
(Log in to post comments)
Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to Sugar Posted Apr 23, 2008 21:40 UTC (Wed) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141) [Link] What non-free codecs does your daughter require to play videos?
Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to Sugar Posted Apr 24, 2008 12:30 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] My two sons were given OLPCs, but they don't use them for much, yet. They request to use my Linux workstation (for playing and editing Dungeon Crawl) and my Windows laptop (for Headsprout, which has been gloriously successful at helping both boys learn to read -- our three year old is reading pretty well now), and my seven year old requests that I fix the hardware problem in his Linux workstation so that he can play Dominions 3. So I infer that I am going to have to install Flash player on the little one's OLPC so that he will use that to play Headsprout instead of my Windows laptop so that I can use the latter for work.
Negroponte on OLPC's commitment to Sugar Posted Apr 24, 2008 23:01 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link] Installing the Flash Player on the OLPC is very easy: su -l wget flash90124.notlong.com rpm -i flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm exit as per http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adobe_Flash
|
|
||||||||||||