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OLPC giveaway program hits Oz
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| The Australian subsidiary of the non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
| organisation today said it would commence a local "Give 1, Get 1" program on
| November 30 that would deliver the machines to both geeks and disadvantaged
| children.
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| [...]
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| "At linux.conf.au 2008 in Melbourne, about 150 XO laptops were handed out to
| open source developers, so there's been a lot of cool development work being
| done by Australians given that we've had some availability in the community",
| he said.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/OLPC-giveaway-program-hits-Oz/0,339028227,339293455,00.htm
Recent:
Tom Brady Teams Up With OLPC
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| Well, good for Tom. Maybe there's more to life than football and dating every
| model in the Victoria's Secret catalog. (Or maybe not.) Still, it's hard to
| resist the irony of struggling OLPC-it's had a difficult journey getting its
| low-cost Linux portables to market-teaming up with the hobbling Tom Brady,
| who's out for the season with a knee injury.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154234/.html?tk=rss_main
Amazon to sell OLPC's XO laptop starting Nov. 17
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| Only Linux-based XO laptops will be available through Amazon, said Jim
| Gettys, vice president of software engineering at OLPC. A Windows version
| will not be sold.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119862&source=rss_topic122
Breaking News: G1G1 coming to Europe Nov. 17
http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/g1g1v2/breaking_news_g1g1_coming_to_europe_nov_17.html
Laptop plan is not child's play just yet
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| But worse than its origins were the criticism of the software itself.
| Negroponte had opted for Linux and an entirely new user interface called
| Sugar (the rumours said that he had turned down an offer by Steve Jobs of
| free-to-ship version of MacOS).
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/1017/1224108318538.html
OLPC Releases Fedora-Based Linux Distribution for the XO Laptop
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| The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) developers announced today a new release of
| their XO Software, a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the XO
| laptop. The new version is based on the popular Sugar graphical interface,
| Fedora 9 operating system, and includes some core software customizations for
| wireless drivers, Open Firmware, power management, and the NAND flash
| filesystem. Among the new features in XO Software 8.2.0, we can notice some
| usability and GUI (graphical user interface) improvements, backup and restore
| functions, new and updated languages, automatic updates and longer battery
| life.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/OLPC-Releases-Fedora-based-Linux-Distribution-for-the-XO-Laptop-95858.shtml
Related:
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.
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| "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.
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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.
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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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