http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/ Engadget Comments for Confirmed: Kids like Sugar better than XP http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/knock that s off kids]]>Oct 24th 2008 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/That's why they have to go to school]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
+1 comment, would read again]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
Thats why as adults we can't turn down iCandy! :D]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Set Blaster /to /kill !]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
Steve Ballmer laughs straight to the bank and pimpslaps allthe haters at the same time.....]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
Is this article really necessary at all?

Come on Engadget; just go back to Apple articles.]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
More importantly, forget Windows, you can install whatever you want to from Fedora's repos. Instead of people downloading who knows what shady malware and garbage shareware for Windows off the internet, the stuff in the repos is free and tested for security and compatibility.]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
From the "about" at the bottom of the article.

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, CHANGED GENDERS ONCE, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft.. ]]>Oct 25th 2008 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/]]>Oct 24th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/argument, more "Sugar is better for kids". So people who prefer
windows should not feel threatened, Sugar will never overthrow
Windows in the "real world" (I say that with confidence) but maybe in the classrooms.

Keep in mind the goal here is not to teach kids about Computers, its
merely to teach. They are not sending $200 youtube or office
devices, they are trying to provide an adequate replacement for both
textbooks, calculators, and any and all educational requirements they
may need. It needs to be easily adaptable to suit any language, any
culture, needs to be cheap as free, etc. Sugar Labs have gone to a lot of effort and committee
design to ensure this. XP will certainly teach you about using
computers as we now regard them here in the "developed world", but I think out of the
box it provides little in the way educational software that is pick
up and play or easily translated into multiple languages.

I think the real benefit of Sugar is that its so simplistic, and that
its designed around the hardware. It's tailored to learning and kids
so it's pretty much a no-brainer to me that it would be more
appealing then XP for this purpose, especially on a machine with such
meager hardware like the XO. I haven't tried XP on the XO but I
imagine it would run pretty slowly. I have tried Ubuntu hardy with
xfce, and it's somewhat laggy on that hardware.

Plus comparing Sugar and XP is not just comparing the basic UI, Sugar
contains a large bundle of software WRITTEN for kids. Right out of the
box Sugar has games, some great music creation software, paint and
drawing programs, programming environments, photo and video
recorders, chat, writing tools, etc etc. I know that there are some
bundled commercial apps that come with XP for XO, but I can't comment
on them as I haven't used them.

My final point is that Sugar is FREE and XP costs money, not much
money (+$3 per unit). But with a minimum order of 1000 laptops per
deployment that adds up and we are talking about cash strapped
deployments.

However that being said I feel it should be noted that XP supports
the XO's stylus pad, whereas Sugar is still working on adequately
integrating this feature into all it's activities. So far as I know,
Sugar only uses the touchpad as a proof of concept and you need to run
a script to activate it as of the last Joyride I experimented with.
Also a number of other advertised features (view source for example)
have not yet been implemented in Sugar, but I doubt that has been
applied to XP.

Also of importance here is that while the bundled apps in Sugar are
great, it is a little tricky to figure out how to install and run
NON-Sugarized apps if you are not familiar with the shell. Since
sugar is Fedora through the terminal you can use yum to install a lot
of software and run it, usually without issue. But this is far from
easy for someone just picking up a computer. While I can guarantee
any child could figure out how to do it in time (teach one kid,
s/he'll teach everyone else) I bet it will be hardest on the
teacher(s) in the deployment. I would imagine most adults familiar
with computers would just prefer using a standard OS like XP.]]>Oct 24th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/
To be honest, someone could take most of the apps in Sugar and write a Sugar shell and stick it in XP. Then the end user wouldn't really even know what OS is running under it.]]>Oct 24th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 25th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/It is confirmed that kid, singular, not plural, likes sugar.]]>Oct 24th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp/Oct 24th 2008 12:26PM