Sugar Laboratories, Inc. is now in informal discussions with four ultra-low cost laptop manufacturers about the possibility of running its Linux software on their hardware, according to the new company's founder.

As Walter Bender, who left One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) last week to help establish OLPC's new software spinoff -- told BetaNews yesterday, his new non-profit software organization is very much interested in working with Intel, and is already talking with Pixel Qi, another organization with OLPC roots.

After wrapping up design of OLPC's newly unveiled XO 2.0, a $75 dual touchscreen laptop, Pixel Qi now plans to keep working with OLPC while also starting to design screens for commercial PC notebooks.

"The goal [now] is to make the Sugar [software] platform agnostic to whatever extent possible, so that Sugar doesn't have to be coupled to any single vendor's hardware. We plan to work with everyone," Bender told BetaNews late Tuesday.

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