Child's play: Sneaking a peek at the OLPC OS
The first One Laptop Per Child hardware devices are still months from deployment, but you can sneak a peek at their Sugar desktop environment and bundled applications by running an OS image under an emulator. It's a great way to finally get some hands-on time with this long-anticipated project, even though it's not perfect.
The OLPC wiki has instructions for emulating the laptop via several software schemes -- QEMU, VMware, and Parallels Desktop. I chose to download the VMware image, which is simple and runs inside the freely available VMware Player.
A word of caution: although the native hardware will only sport a 366MHz processor, the emulated system feels slower even on a fast host machine because of a delay in cursor/keyboard responsiveness. The apps launch fast enough, but sluggishness in the user interface contributes to a perceived sluggishness in the overall system. Don't judge its performance too harshly.
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