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An application developer can do most of their work on any system, especially if they are using the OLPC Python Environment. There are a number of low-power laptops or thin-clients being introduced into the market that are superficially similar to an OLPC-XO.

If you like, you could use one of these platforms for development, though as of 2007-12-15, we don't see any compelling reason to recommend doing so, unless your goal is to port the environment to the platform.

While this porting might be useful and meritorious, such porting is not considered a core goal of the project. At the moment we simply do not have the resources to support Sugar running on other platforms, so expending core development resources on porting to such platforms doesn't yet make sense.

To be a reasonable port, you will likely need to form a sub-community which can commit to supporting the port for use by large numbers of users. That will likely require commitments of commercial support from someone, somewhere.

Examples of Low Power Laptops:

Thin Clients:

Koolu
Flepo Mini PC1 (2012: all urls return: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
NTAVO Thin Client (PuppyLinux)
Ndiyo Nivo

Further afield:

HP iPAQ's (2012:The site should be active on the week of Dec 1st, 2012!)
Sharp Zaurus

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-An application developer can do most of theor work on any system, especially if they are using the [[OLPC Python Environment]]. However it is a good idea to do your testing on a system that is similar to the OLPC, i.e. low memory, battery powered, portable.
+<< [[Developers/Setup#Almost an OLPC|Developer's Setup]]
+An application developer can do most of their work on any system, especially if they are using the [[OLPC Python Environment]].  There are a number of low-power laptops or thin-clients being introduced into the market that are superficially similar to an OLPC-XO.
-Some possibilities are:
+If you like, you could use one of these platforms for development, though as of 2007-12-15, we don't see any compelling reason to recommend doing so, unless your '''goal''' is to port the environment to the platform.
-* A number of [http://www.handhelds.org HP iPAQ's] run Linux; it is an ARM based PDA, along with the:
-* Sharp [[Zaurus]] is a PDA running Linux. Several model look like mini laptops.
+While this porting might be useful and meritorious, such porting is not considered a core goal of the project.  At the moment we simply do not have the resources to support Sugar running on other platforms, so expending core development resources on porting to such platforms doesn't yet make sense.
-* [[PepperPad]] is a Linux-based tablet device. The 3rd model in the range has adopted the AMD GEODE CPU however that is less relevant for Python applications.
-* A German company sells the [http://www.barebone-online.de/product_info.php/products_id/478 Flepo Mini PC1] which runs exactly the same CPU as the OLPC.
+To be a reasonable port, you will likely need to form a sub-community which can commit to supporting the port for use by large numbers of users.  That will likely require commitments of commercial support from someone, somewhere.
-* [http://www.ntavo.com/ntaterminal.php NTAVO Thin Client terminals] run Linux. The [[PuppyLinux]] folks have ported their low memory system to it.
-* [http://www.ndiyo.org/systems Ndiyo Nivo] is a "ultra-thin-client hardware" - not a laptop, but another idea on cost reduction (maybe a "thin" OLPC along such lines could of interest in future iterations?)
+Examples of Low Power Laptops:
+* [[Intel Classmate]]
+* [[Asus EEEpc]]
+* [http://www.carrypad.com/journal/2007/01/pepper-software-demo-on-olpc-at-ces.html PepperPad]
+Thin Clients:
+* Koolu
+* [http://www.barebone-online.de/product_info.php/products_id/478 Flepo Mini PC1] (2012: all urls return: Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
+* [http://www.ntavo.com/ntaterminal.php NTAVO Thin Client] ([[PuppyLinux]])
+* [http://www.ndiyo.org/systems Ndiyo Nivo]
+Further afield:
+* [http://www.handhelds.org HP iPAQ's] (2012:The site should be active on the week of Dec 1st, 2012!)
+* Sharp [[Zaurus]]
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+[[Category:Competing projects]]

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