Linux Air: Hitting the road with the Eee PC
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| The Eee PC will make life much easier for my wife and me on our trip. It will
| be far better weight-wise, and infinitely better than not having any PC at
| all for six weeks. We can save our photos, do internet banking with far less
| risk than in Net cafes, backup our Palm PDAs, track our expenses in a
| spreadsheet, etc, etc. I'm loving it already!
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/asus_eee_pc
OLPC XO
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| The XO is an incredible device which I believe can change the face of
| education forever. It's not only going to effect the lives of the "child
| under the banyan tree," the stereotypical/ideal child user targeted by the
| One Laptop Per Child program. As a future educator myself, I can see the
| potential this device has. The cooperative learning applications--almost all
| of the applications allow some kind of collaboration--are extremely useful in
| the modern classroom. Education theorists are abuzz with this type of
| learning, and the XO facilitates that con mucho gusto.
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http://www.bioslevel.com/index.php/reviews/aid/1197819730
eeeXubuntu booting great from SDHC on Asus eeePC
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| I blew away XP on my eeePC and restored the original Xandros - great little
| OS in Easy Mode with iceWM. I also enabled advanced mode (a full KDE desktop)
| using pimpmyeee.sh (Google it - its a no-brainer quick way to enabled KDE).
| You can switch back and forth nice and easily.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/tonyhughes/4535
Related:
One Laptop Per Child wins Wallpaper* Design Award
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| Wallpaper* has given One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop a Judges Award for Most
| Life Enhancing Item. Click through for the February 2008 shoot, which leans
| more towards the ‘Ubuntu Calendar’ school of styling than the usual pics of
| smiling schoolchildren.
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http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/one-laptop-per-child-wins-wallpaper-award/
CRUX Linux 2.4 on OLPC XO-1
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| I’m still working out the kinks, but I managed to put Crux 2.4 on the XO last
| night, and I have a rudimentary Openbox 3.4.6 session working with the
| default kernel and wired net access, functional browser, file manager and
| image viewer, and so forth.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/crux-linux-24-on-olpc-xo-1/
The XO Laptop: It’s the Software, Stupid
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| Uruguay was the first country to purchase a large number of XO laptops,
| ordering 100,000 of the small green machines from Cambridge, MA-based One
| Laptop Per Child Foundation last October. If you dropped a couple thousand
| bucks on your last laptop, you may be alarmed by the idea of a student taking
| her brand-new XO into a muddy cow pen and getting up close and personal with
| a caul-enmeshed calf still shining with amniotic fluid. But to the folks at
| OLPC, who designed the $175 XO to be rugged and portable, yet powerful,
| finding the YouTube video was a triumphant moment. This bit of barnyard
| reality spoke volumes about an often-overlooked aspect of the project—namely,
| the software, which is designed to overturn old notions of classroom learning
| and give kids the ability to collaborate and express themselves in many
| media.
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http://www.xconomy.com/2008/02/01/the-xo-laptop-its-the-software-stupid/
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
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| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
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| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
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| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
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| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
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