Hands on with the XO Sugar OS

Although I still haven’t been able to get my hands on an XO for a serious review, thanks to the joys of VMWare, I was able to give the Sugar OS a good test drive tonight (you can download the latest image here). It took a bit of getting used to, but within about 10 minutes, I was navigating quite naturally, using the touchpad corners to bring up the “taskbar,†multitasking, etc. The entire OS is based around starting and stopping “Activities,†whether browsing the Web or writing a document.