p2pnet.net — Chipzilla is doing everything it can to undercut MIT's One Laptop Per Child project not, sadly, in the name of helping disadvantaged kids in Africa and elsewhere, but instead to pander to the God of the Bottom Line. But it's not the only game in town and another cheap system is quietly trundling along in the background.
Jun 21, 2007 View in Crawl 4
gnutzuJun 26, 2007
No Discounts on Shipping and A Fee for Unlocking the Hard DriveWell, I ordered a decTOP (for better or worse), but the cheapest shipping was still more than a third the price of the decTOP. In the customer comments there was a reference to a tutorial installing XUbuntu through a USB boot device ( <a class="user" href="http://jsco.org/dectop/">http://jsco.org/dectop/</a> ). This claims to bypass the lock on the system (which the vendor charges $30 to unlock). (And, you have to register to rate the user comments as helpful or not.)Anyway, I look forward to seeing what can be done with an almost $99 computer.