siliconvalleysleuth.com — The one Laptop Per Child Project last week produced a first working prototype. This site has a movie where Red Hat's Christopher Blizzard shows off the device's features and then boots it up, showing it running Fedora.
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zatrixJun 3, 2006
I hope somebody hacks it and installs windows on it, just to piss off the fanboys
verminJun 3, 2006
But we've been giving them food for decades now and it hasn't solved the problem. This is an attempt to go after the root of the problem. Is it really so hard to comprehend?
continuumJun 3, 2006
have you ever tried reading a text book on a cell phone?
x8sam8xJun 3, 2006
So giving laptops to all these third world countries will solve all there economical problems...... come on now guys lets be realistic. Most of these countries have corrupt governments that take the foreign aid money for themselves and take the donated food and sell it to their own people. I believe the root of the problem is government once theses corrupt warlords of a government create an environment for the people to have opportunities, then there might be some significant change.
sanityinanarchyJun 3, 2006
Whatever, at least it's getting done. I almost wouldn't mind if they were Windows, because with all the kids networked, I imagine they'd very quickly discover the advantages of Ubuntu.Then again, Ubuntu would be at least as hard to strip down as Redhat.
sanityinanarchyJun 3, 2006
Does the thing have a CD drive?Seriously, it's not for lack of computers, it's because textbooks are far more likely to make the publisher money, it's pretty standard (hint: most ebooks are insanely hard to deal with because they like to lock things down, the ones that don't are already text or html), and most people prefer to read on paper, even if kids are growing up to prefer computers now.
llanJun 3, 2006
Education is the key towards fighting poverty.If you still think that carrying food there is solving more problems than it creates, maybe you need some education too.