After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> The OLPC XO-1.5 and Fedora 11
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>| Some good news from OLPC: we've decided to base the new XO-1.5 laptop's
>| software release on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we plan to use a
>| full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving users the option to
>| switch into a standard GNOME install instead. (This will mostly be useful for
>| older kids in high school.)
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> http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/05/16/the-olpc-xo-1-5-and-fedora-11
For a project some claim to be dead, it's nice to see the hardware moving
forward.
Up to 1 Gb of RAM and 4 of Flash. More elbow room!
> One XO Learning Laptop Per South Carolinian School Child
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>| Last year, One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina launched a XO laptop pilot
>| project at Britton's Neck Elementary in Marion School District Seven and
>| Rains Centenary Early Childhood Center in Mullins, with 500 computers and an
>| over-riding goal: one XO learning laptop per South Carolinian school child.
> `----
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> http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/olpc_south_carolina_school_child.html
I hadn't heard about that. Interesting. Some of SC is pretty, uh, rural.
> OLPC XO-2 goes Open Hardware
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>| I admit to being a little gobstopped by Nicholas Negroponte?s announcment in
>| the Guardian that the next generation OLPC will be Open Hardware is a pretty
>| big deal. I picked up the announcement this morning from Make Magazine
>| editor, Phil Torrone?s twitter feed in which he says ?This is pretty much the
>| biggest news of 2009". For the maker, tinkerer, hardware hacker world, this
>| might just be true.
> `----
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> http://manypossibilities.net/2009/01/olpc-xo-2-goes-open-hardware/
For a project some claim to be dead, it's nice to see the hardware moving
forward.
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