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Fedora devs keeping OLPC sweet with Sugar
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| Developer Sebastian Dzialias (who was also
| in the OLPC session), said that a new
| version of Sugar on a Stick was coming this
| Tuesday - codenamed Blueberry. It's a good
| thing too, the promise of the XO and its
| desktop, deserves better than to end up in
| a landfill.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/12/fedora-devs-keeping-olpc-sweet.html
OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry
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| I will list the ways in which OLPC has
| influenced the target market which probably
| defines the interest of most readers of
| OLPC News, the angle from which most
| bloggers and industry commentators have
| been talking about the OLPC project for the
| past 4 years, which is how OLPC technology
| may affect the rich Western country's
| PC/Laptop industry.
|
| [...]
|
| 5. Google is now planning the Chrome OS.
| Educated from the netbooks, the demand from
| the mass consumer market has now definitely
| shifted from performance and bloat, towards
| just asking to have the bare minimum.
| Google is seeing the convergence of market
| trends and are as a result building a very
| optimized OS to boot in 5 seconds and run
| on $50 ARM powered laptops.
|
| OLPC has thus influenced the mass consumer
| and geek markets of rich countries in all
| these ways. But I do think OLPC has still a
| long way to go in the coming months to
| influence the industry even more.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/impact/olpc_netbook_impact_on_laptop.html
Recent:
Workforce Authority Joins OLPC Drive
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| The Workforce Development Authority (WDA) has
| joined hands with the One Laptop Per Child
| (OLPC) to ensure that Technical and
| Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
| schools are not left out as the nation braces
| for a major OLPC roll-out campaign.
|
| A team of facilitators from the OLPC's Global
| Centre for Excellence in Laptops and Learning
| based in Kigali on Monday, November 30, 2009,
| started a one-week training of 15 WDA
| instructors in maintenance of XO Laptops.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200912040032.html
What Have We Learned from OLPC?
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| Next, the humble XO laptop which was once
| ridiculed by the titans of technology, spawned
| the netbook. And the netbook is eating the
| computer market at a stunning growth rate.
| From essentially $0 sales in 2nd Quarter 2007
| to $3 billion in sales - 20% of the entire
| portable computer market - in 2nd Quarter of
| 2009, netbook sales show no signs of slowing.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/impact/what_have_we_learned_from_olpc.html
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