Low-Cost Laptop Project Ramps Up Production
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| By the end of the year, One Laptop Per Child should be manufacturing
| about one million computers per month, according to Mr. Negroponte.
| And as the project has grown stronger on the assembly line, it has
| fought to keep production costs down. The OLPC machine has been
| widely billed as a ?$100 laptop,? but its current cost has
| actually swollen to about $176, Mr. Negroponte said, though he
| added that the laptop?s price tag could be down to $100 by 2009.
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2112
Related:
Linux-powered OLPC on "60 Minutes" May 20
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| CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl will report on the project's
| progress in such countries as Cambodia and Brazil. Stahl
| discusses her upcoming report in a "Reporter's Notebook"
| webcast now available on the 60 Minutes site.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7002236595.html
Reason Why Schools Should Adopt Linux
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| Can I Import My Previous Work Into Linux? Consider this: you have
| document after document tied up into formats, such as Outlook, MS
| Publisher and so on. Now, with Outlook, I "believe" the data can bee
| xported without too much trouble. But last time I checked, your
| Publisher files were stuck as is, period. So it's fair to say
| that challenges like this can indeed, seem like a deal breaker
| for some users. I mean come on, this is not a solution and the
| fact that Publisher is so commonly used in the Windows world is
| certainly not helping anyone. This issue would seem trivial to
| most of us, but to those who just installed Linux, it can prove
| to be frustrating.
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http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7802
Stretching the Education Dollar With Linux
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| The fact that open source solutions offer a wider range of choices
| and options than their proprietary counterparts make them truly
| useful alternatives to closed solutions, Henson says, especially
| for administrative tasks. "[W]ith open source solutions,
| organizations can freely customize the software to their
| specific requirements. This is particularly important when
| organizations wish to integrate with their existing software
| -- such as student and employee management systems. Developing
| such APIs is often extremely costly and time-consuming to
| facilitate with proprietary software vendors."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56656.html
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