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- The best Linux distro for a new breed of PCs
- The best Linux distro for a new breed of PCsUbuntu, but only an LTS versionAn Long Term Supported version of Ubuntu, not the "normal" versions. Three years of security updates instead of 18 months.The period of security updates of other distro's is usually too short: 1 year.... In an Ed...
- Tags: Linux, Security administration, Desktops, Patches, OPEN SOURCE, OLPC Sugar, distro, Ubuntu, Linux Distro, breed, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-04-04
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- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chief
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chiefCould it be that Apple likes to change the game?As Harry mentions everyone benefits from Apple's crazy ideas...even if you hate Apple and never use any of their products, you will benefit by what they do. No one else seems to be willing to step outside...
- Tags: Apple OSX, Apple Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?indeed well spentNothing dying about OLPC or olpc, upper or lower case. 1 million kids have XO laptops in 31 countries and 19 languages, with another million headed too them. The results have been nothing less than complete social change. If Rwanda can 20% of...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC initiative, XO-2
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Taking notes on your Linux laptop
- Taking notes on your Linux laptopNo, but certainly part of the MS enabled ecosystem.His post reads exactly as someone who is desperate to downplay Linux while espousing that the only "real" software is Windows based. Be a shame if any of those kids wanted to learn web technologies though,...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Taking Notes, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- What's next for OLPC?
- So where exactly is OLPC headed now that they are cutting staff, cutting salaries, and turning over Sugar development to the community? Negroponte tells us This restructuring is also the result of an exciting new direction for OLPC. Our technology initiatives will focus on:...
- Tags: Netbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Sugar Operating System, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- OLPC laying off staff and cutting salaries
- OLPC laying off staff and cutting salariesthat's the price for working with M$OLPC should have steered clear of M$ and would have been a very prosperous organization.You can deliver the $0.00 laptop if it's running windoze.MS wins another extinguish.You can add this to the very long list of companies who...
- Tags: Operating systems, payroll solutions, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-01-08
- News to know: CES; Windows 7; Satyam
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7 CES Coverage: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft at CES: Zune Mobile, no; Win 7 Beta 1,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Satyam, Camcorder, Mary Jo Foley, Organic Light-emitting Diode, HDTV, Microsoft Windows, Blu-ray, Netbook, Keyboards, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- $400 XOs and recessions
- The OLPC XO goes on sale through Amazon Monday via a redux of their Give One Get One (G1G1) program that turned into such a debacle last year. It's no secret that, despite my utter willingness to give props to OLPC for spurring an entire market of...
- Tags: Recession, Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, OLPC XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- OLPC meets XP: Does charm matter?
- The One Laptop Per Child OLPC project is prepping an Windows-XP powered version of its XO device and the big takeaway is that the charm has left the building. Will charm matter to OLPC's mission? See gallery right. CNet News's Ina Fried reports: ...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, CNet News, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- XP on XO goes to Peru
- Peru will be starting a 9-month trial of OLPC's XO laptops running a "tweaked" version of Windows XP and Microsoft's low-cost version of Office, Microsoft Office 2003 Standard and Learning Essentials 1.0. While the feature in Ars Technica made no mention of the XO's innovative Sugar interface, it looks...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Did the big boys really kill OLPC?
- Did the big boys really kill OLPC?Look at where the story originated fromThe UK. You know, Ant-Microsoft, Anti-Intel.This is just another attempt to bolster the country's "home grown" Linux initiative.I am sure they where happy to have the XO use AMD chips (Dresden, Germany) though quite angry they where not...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...
- Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Sugar coming to an EeePC or Classmate near you?
- BetaNews reported Thursday that Walter Bender, founder of Sugar Labs, is in informal talks with four ULPC manufacturers to bring Sugar to their products. "The goal [now] is to make the Sugar [software] platform agnostic to whatever extent possible, so that Sugar doesn't have to be coupled to any...
- Tags: Software, Business Structures, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- SugarLabs in talks with low-cost PC makers
- SugarLabs in talks with low-cost PC makersThis is all very positive! Now, ANY vendor can mix and matchthe Sugar and other parts of the OLPC hardware design. This will breath new life into one-to-one computing, and make it so that it does not all depend on one organization. And the...
- Tags: Sugar, One Laptop Per Child project, SugarLabs
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- SugarLabs in talks with low-cost PC makers
- OLPC's embrace of Windows has opened the door for other manufacturers to consider the innovative Sugar interface. OLPC software boss Walter Bender left the organization last week in conjunction with the announcement that the XO would dual boot Windows and Sugar. Bender says he's talking to four low-cost computer makers...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Bender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?
- Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?do they have a prototype?It looks so cool and it will be only $75 in 2 years. Gate$ and Job$ must be turning green of envy!RE: Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?This thing is fantastic,...
- Tags: Linux, Only Question, One Laptop Per Child project, Negroponte, XO2
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?
- A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...
- Tags: Operating System, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- News to know: Netflix; Google Health; Storm Worm; Fixing Vista
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: The Storm Worm would love to infect you Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: The information lockdown continues Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Vertical Industries, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- RIP OLPC
- RIP OLPCWintel is a bit - well, 'legacy'Those kids that get XP rather than OSS olpcs will miss out on the rather more interesting experience. Certainly, for learning about computing, XP can hardly be regarded as an honest opportunity.Agree about editing and recompiling software though - it luckily isn't...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, RIP OLPC, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- RIP OLPC
- Here are two priceless bits from a long comment on problems within the one laptop per child community published on his personal blog by Ivan Krstic - he works for Sun now, I think, but was the long term go to guy on the programming...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Mako Hill, Sugar, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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