Comments on: First impression of the OLPC OS

By: Shaun Stevens

Shaun Stevens — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:47:14 +0000

I really do not see what all the fuss is about.
The key is get computers and access to the internet to these kids.
People in the first world live in a world of non reality.
Something is better than not being able to go to an inernet cafe for internet.

By: Matthew Rice

Matthew Rice — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:26:40 +0000

I too have seen the sites with concerns about the lack of “windows” I won’t go on too much, but the short reason most people seem to forget about this, is cost and flexability.. Even at an insane discount there is still a cost compared to free *nix .. As far as flexibility what I mean, is that people seem to forget that the machines ( or from waht I have read ) won’t be really bulky at all, I mean even these shots somewhat explain that.. So what would a bloated windows be able to do? This way the company is in control of every little piece it needs in there, and nothing extra.

OK I went on a little too much

By: Max Rubin

Max Rubin — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:29:42 +0000

On another blog there was a big concern as to why these laptops did not have Microsoft Windows and what harm this would do .
For the life of me I could not understand what the issues and concerns were.
It is all very similar – Windows , Linux and even the Mac.
All they are are operating systems to run computers.
Indeed the origins of the gui’s all went back to the xerox Parc computer.
As well something is better than nothing.
The concern escapes me . http://www.adgerlinux.com

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:41:38 +0000

I think the choppy mouse is just a VMware issue in general. If you managed to install the VMware Tools, the mouse cursor would be rendered on the client, making it no less smooth than your current cursor.

I think the cursor will be perfectly smooth on the actual laptops with real hardware. I have found that my 400MHz machine renders a smoother mouse than one in a virtual OS on my 1.8GHz machine.