On Jul 15, 1:21 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> OLPC official challenges Michael Dell
>
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> | Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child program's director of software, told
> | DesktopLinux.com on July 13 that he invites Dell Computer founder and CEO
> | Michael Dell to help figure out how to better use 125 million computers that
> | are discarded annually because they are archaic.
> `----
Keep in mind that Dell, HP, and IBM (Lenovo now?) donated about 10
million computers to an NGO that sent these PCs to other countries,
where they were configured with Linux (usually Red Hat).
If someone wants to up that to 100 million PCs, Dell gets them as
"Lease Returns".
Most of them are 2-4 years old, which means they would still have 1/2
gig of RAM, 40-80 gig hard drives, and 1 Ghz CPUs. Some of the
harder ones to give away are only NT 4.0 machines, 64 meg, 200 Mhz
CPUs, and 20 gig hard drives. But even these can run Linux with
"lightweight" Window managers, fewer colors, and few special effects.
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6331409497.html
>
> Context here:http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5625
>
> Also here:http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10005621o-2000331759b,...
>
> The Register also covers the Intel-OLPC story properly...
>
> OLPC czar shames Intel into board seat
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/13/intel_joins_olpc/
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