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Re:OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world by floren on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:17PM (#16850765)
> I still don't understand why the system performed so poorly, I know a lot of Sugar was written in Python, but there must have been some very fundamental problems with it.

Fundamental problem identified. I believe the Inferno port tended to run better.

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Re:OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world by avhon1 on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:35PM (#16852498)
> the Inferno port tended to run better.

Cool. I hadn't heard about this! It looks like it's being actively maintained on bitbucket, too! [0]

It looks like someone else also got Plan9 booting on the OLPC [1].

[0] https://bitbucket.org/inferno-os/inferno-os/

[1] http://gsoc.cat-v.org/people/ameya/blog/2007/08/19/1_Plan9_K...

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