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[News] The Charity Killer (Intel) Shows off Its GNU/Linux PCs

  • Subject: [News] The Charity Killer (Intel) Shows off Its GNU/Linux PCs
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:36:09 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux destined for low-cost Intel Atom PCs

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| Linux-based PCs like this are prime real estate for Atom. Especially when 
| reports this week cite the cheapest upcoming Atom processors (due in the 
| second quarter) at below $30.  
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http://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1-0.html?keyword=Home+Depot

Will Netbooks Shake Up the Laptop Market?

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| Another netbook on the horizon--this one from Intel--is sure to get a lot of 
| attention. It's called the 2go PC, and according to various sources, it will 
| come with a Celeron M processor, 512MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a 
| 9-inch screen. It will run Windows XP or Linux.   
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2279755,00.asp


Related:

How will Linux win the OS wars? From the bottom up! 

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| So therefore, best way to win the war of the operating systems is not to go 
| after the high end market.  
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=352


Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself" 

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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious 
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733


Laptop-Project Founder Faults Intel

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| Oscar Becerra Tresierra, general director for educational technology at 
| Peru's Ministry of Education, says that after the country recently agreed to 
| buy 272,500 OLPC laptops for primary-school students, an Intel sales 
|                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
| representative tried "to scare us" by claiming the machines and their power 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| adapters didn't work. "I don't feel very happy about it," he said. "We  
| wouldn't like the project to fail because somebody is spreading gossip about 
|                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| the machines that doesn't turn out to be true."     
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119948070480568405.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


Laptop Project Blames Intel for Breakup

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| Negroponte said Intel even tried to undo a deal One Laptop had already sealed 
| in Peru by citing flaws in the One Laptop "XO" machine and telling government 
| ministers "we ought to know, because we are on the board." Such hostile 
| comments were prohibited, Negroponte claimed, under the July peace treaty 
| that brought Intel into the One Laptop Per Child camp.    
| 
| "I want to say we tried, but it was never a partnership," Negroponte 
| said. "There's not one single thing in their contract or agreement that they 
| lived up to."   
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXa0O9XLMsWfaqt-sI9FqFy2IewgD8TVAD7OA


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.   
| 
| 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

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