With sugar packages existing in all of the latest ubuntu repo's any of these OLPC-clones that have ubuntu or debian running on them should be able to have Sugar running in fairly short order.  Ubutnu even lets you boot into sugar as your only WM now. Seth <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Is there a reason why a truly independent Sugar effort would not want to work with other education and low-cost laptop makers? I was thinking that maybe we should invite them on this list, because they are likely to be interested in Sugar too. The XO-1 is a really nice machine with a few unique features of its own and a slight cost advantage over its competitors.  But soon or later the situation might change.  A truly open and competitive hardware market is a prerequisite to drive the price down quickly. Several list subscribers seem interested in working with other manufacturers; Some already started experimenting: Aaron Kaplan of OLPC Austria recently hacked Wolfgang Rohrmoser's OLPC LiveCD and got it to work with the Classmate:  <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugar_on_classmate_pc.html" target="_blank">http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugar_on_classmate_pc.html</a> Next week my EEE PC should arrive and I'm looking forward to start playing with it. Does anybody have good internal contacts within these companies? If you do, please tell them what we're up to and invite them here. --   \___/  _| o |  Bernie Innocenti - <a href="http://www.codewiz.org/" target="_blank">http://www.codewiz.org/</a>  \|_X_|  "It's an education project, not a laptop project!" _______________________________________________ Its.an.education.project mailing list <a href="mailto:Its.an.education.project@tema.lo-res.org">Its.an.education.project@tema.lo-res.org</a> <a href="http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project" target="_blank">http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project</a> </blockquote></div>