{"id":86,"date":"2008-11-04T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/seth\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-11-26T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T01:15:08","slug":"blogs-on-xo-xp-vs-xo-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/2008\/11\/04\/blogs-on-xo-xp-vs-xo-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs on XO-XP vs XO-Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stock OLPC XO-1 by One Laptop Per Child, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/olpc\/2911407312\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;margin: 5px 10px;float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3146\/2911407312_6fe7ffcbe9_m.jpg\" alt=\"Stock OLPC XO-1\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow, I haven&#8217;t actually used Windows on XO for more than a few seconds.  There are something like three at the OLPC offices AFAIK.  But with the announcement of a viable form of XP on the XO the blogosphere has had a field day.  CNET has finally posted a reasonable, if non-technical, side by side comparison of the two versions of the machine.  The results in the actual article are fairly ambiguous, but blogs, both secular and FOSS have decried that <a href=\"http:\/\/dailystuffreport.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/olpc-xo-laptops-move-to-windows-not-so.html\">kids<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.co.uk\/OLPC-windows-linux-XO,news-29500.html\">prefer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/allfreedot.net\/?p=2692\">Sugar<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expat.ru\/forum\/tech-news\/111378-confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp.html\">over<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fulgore.net\/14056\/confirmed-kids-like-sugar-better-than-xp.html\">XP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But more surprisingly, the great majority of blogs about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebuho.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/25\/olpc-windows-o-linux-sugar\/\">subject<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/elite-mexicana.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/los-nios-prefieren-el-olpc-con-linux-no.html\">have<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sibu.homelinux.org\/index.php\/archives\/274\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayerwayer.com\/2008\/10\/%C2%BFninos-prefieren-sugar-a-windows-xp\/\">in<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/leprosys.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/los-nios-prefieren-el-olpc-con-linux-no.html\">Espanol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I haven&#8217;t actually used Windows on XO for more than a few seconds. There are something like three at the OLPC offices AFAIK. But with the announcement of a viable form of XP on the XO the blogosphere has had a field day. CNET has finally posted a reasonable, if non-technical, side by side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139,114],"tags":[141,3465,103,7410,3449,3464],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olpc","category-personal","tag-blogs","tag-cnet","tag-media","tag-olpc","tag-sugar","tag-xp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/seth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}