Arch Linux on OLPC XO-1
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| This is the part where I eat my own words. I didn’t think it possible, but it
| works. The Geode is an i586, and logic says that a system tuned to the 686 —
| which regularly resisted all efforts to run or even boot on K6-series
| machines for me — seems quite happy to plunk along on my XO-1. See for
| yourself.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/arch-linux-on-olpc-xo-1/
Related:
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.
|
| 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.
|
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
|
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
|
| 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
Africa's digital poster child [Intel's illegal dumping]
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| [Classmates in Nigeria]
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| The renovation has been paid for by the government and Intel, with the chip
| firm covering the majority of the costs of the technology.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115218.stm
Why the XO Laptop is better than the Classmate
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| There's been some awful FUD flying around the OLPC world in the last few
| days, with misquotes, misinformation, and flat out lies being propagated left
| and right. Even Engadget, one of the better geektech blogs out there, got it
| completely wrong regarding OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen's departure from the
| project.
|
| [...]
|
| Classmate is more expensive, consumes 10 times the power, has 1/3 the wifi
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| range, and can't be used outside. Also, the Classmate doesn't use neighboring
| laptops to extend the reach of the internet via hopping (mesh-networking)
| like the XO does. So not only is the XO cheaper than the Classmate, the XO
| requires less infrastructre expenditure for electricity and for internet
| access.
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http://planet-geek.com/archives/004331.html
Intel-powered XO is too expensive and consumes too much power
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| 2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the
| Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the OLPC
| board.
|
| Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting
| them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world
| countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a
| good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the
| AMD Geode LX-700. Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match the
| price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC project.
| Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had to unveil an
| Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price and power
| consumption compared to the AMD powered one.
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http://charbax.com/2008/01/04/intel-diamondville-and-menlow-processors-not-low-costpower-enough/
OLPC Heralds Era of Low-Cost Computing
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| Critics of the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) Project like to point out that it
| has not yet lived up to its goal of putting US$100 notebooks in the hands of
| millions of kids in poor countries, but that's a short-sighted view
| considering the impact it's already having on the computer industry.
|
| OLPC's XO laptop and the dream of the $100 notebook PC have driven down the
| cost of computing and highlighted the issue of the lack of computing
| resources in developing nations.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140697-c,notebooks/article.html
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