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Operating Systems

Submission + - First Thoughts on the OLPC Sugar/Linux Update (olpcnews.com)

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griffjon
griffjon writes: "With less flash but more substance, the latest update to the Sugar GUI for the One Laptop Per Child XO was released last week. Unlike the overwhelmingly flat and outright negative reviews of the Windows XP version for the laptop, OLPCNews.com gives Sugar 8.2.0 the thumbs-up: "Finally, the XO laptop really works! ...the user interface is much more intuitive. Or as one parent said 'I can use the XO now!'" Bonus: Instant suspend/resume is working."
Microsoft

Submission + - OLPC firmware update supports Windows (olpcnews.com) 2

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griffjon
griffjon writes: "The latest firmware release for the OLPC XO is built to support Windows XP, but you won't be able to install any normal XP version, it's a specifically modified one for the XO. It's sad to see a potentially great platform start making changes to support XP, not to mention that XP is only continuing to survive beyond it's deadline thanks to the low-cost laptop market that Linux and the OLPC created"
The Internet

Submission + - Multilingual URLs (washingtonpost.com)

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griffjon
griffjon writes: "The Washington Post is reporting that ICANN is testing out fully multilingual domain names (not just [non-western-language].com, but with TLDs translated into other scripts, fixing annoyances for non-English speaking audiences such as "speakers of Hebrew, Arabic and any other language written from right to left must type half of the URL in one direction and the other half — the .com, .net or .org postscript — the opposite way." Let's hope it goes better this time around; "Next week's experiments use the domain name "example.test" translated into 11 languages. A previous model, however, used "hippopotamus" instead of "test." These plans went awry when an Israeli registrar realized the Hebrew word ICANN thought meant "hippopotamus" was an expletive and threatened to involve the Israeli government.""

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