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ARMing desktop Linux
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| For a brief time in 2008, Linux actually
| owned a segment of the desktop industry:
| netbooks. When netbooks first showed up,
| they ran Linux and nothing but Linux.
| Microsoft panicked and brought XP back
| from the dead, offering it for next to
| nothing to netbook vendors and thus
| successfully fighting off the Linux
| challenge.
|
| That was then; this is now. Today, Linux
| netbooks are still popular, though not as
| much as they once were. ARM-based
| netbooks, however, are on their way and,
| since these systems can't run Windows,
| Linux has the potential market all to
| itself. The real question is, will PC
| vendors choose to offer low-cost, less
| than $200 netbooks?
|
| [...]
|
| I quote Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: "Our
| license tells you what a netbook is. Our
| license says it's got to have a super-
| small screen, which means it probably has
| a super-small keyboard, and it has to have
| a certain processor and blah, blah, blah,
| blah, blah."
|
| That's so Microsoft. Once the company
| feels like it's on top, it immediately
| start dictating to the market how things
| are going to be from now on. With Linux
| still around, though, it doesn't have to
| be that way.
|
| I think though there is a market for full-
| powered netbooks at a $200 price point,
| and that means Linux. Ubuntu already runs
| on ARM, and I expect Google's Chrome
| operating system to run on ARM-powered
| systems.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14896/arming_desktop_linux
OLPC Afghanistan's Pedal Powered Progress
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| By taking the Freeplay hand crank and
| connecting it to the feet which can more
| easily provide power it should make it
| much easier to deploy the laptop to
| countryside / rural areas. As the laptop
| charges as you use it no additional
| battery is needed. Photos / full specs
| will be published on the OLPC Afghanistan
| website. We are hoping to make this
| sustainably for XO / other power purposes
| in Afghanistan employing more Afghan
| staff. This should work fine with XO 1.5
| as well!
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http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/afghanistan/updates_from_olpc_afghanistan_1.html
Recent:
O Empowered Street Children at Lubuto Library
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| For teachers, getting the subject that they are teaching
| their students to be fun should be the highest ideal
| possible, as it allows for the best learning experience;
| conveniently for teachers of computer literacy in third-
| world countries, they will find that teaching their
| subject using the OLPCs will be very easy.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/olpc_lubuto_empowered_street_children.html
Maximum PC Primer: Lightweight Netbook Computing with Linux
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| These days, netbooks have become a very popular alternative to
| conventional notebooks for mobile computing. Netbooks are
| lightweight, have great battery life, and are relatively
| inexpensive compared to full-sized notebooks. This makes them
| ideal for students or people on a budget. Of course, the lower
| cost and extended battery life does not come without a trade-offâ
| many netbooks have lower system specs as well, which means that
| they are not designed for heavy-computing applications.
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_primer_lightweight_netbook_computing_linux
The Innovator's Opportunity with OLPC
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| So where does that take us? Aha! It takes us to the XO-2 screens.
| According to the designers, that means multi-touch haptic screens
| usable as display or keyboard.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/screen/the_innovators_opportunity.html
Video: XO-1.5 Laptop Dual Boot - Gnome and Sugar UI
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| You've heard the talk about the XO-1.5 laptop having a dual boot
| of Gnome and Sugar user interfaces on the Fedora 11 core. You've
| been thinking how this dual boot system might work, and how easy
| it would be to jump back and forth between the two.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo15/video_xo-15_laptop_dual_boot.html
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