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LiveCD released with OLPC's Sugar OS
by Brad Linder Apr 10th 2007
Sure, the computer formerly known as the $100 laptop or the OLPC may not be available at Best Buy anytime soon. But that doesn't mean you can't try out its innovative operating system yourself.Some folks over at Digg have posted several links to LiveCDs that will let you run the Sugar operating system on a PC. For the uninitiated, a LiveCD is a Linux CD that you insert into your disc drive in order to boot into a working version of the operating system. You don't need to install anything on your computer, and when you reboot your computer and eject the CD you can boot into Windows again, without having lost any data.
There's also a version that lets you run Sugar from within Windows using virtualization.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
