"Me and Bobby Powers have spent a few hours smoothing out the process of getting fully-featured Linux desktops to boot on the XO laptop. On the whole, OLPC developers...
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Regular Linux Desktops on the XO
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Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations [Green Power]
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It's one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It's something entirely different to invent...
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Mystery Tablet Shown at Intel Event, Either the Classmate 3 or a Quad-Core Speak & Spell [Classified Intel]
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At the end of an otherwise tepid presentation at the Intel Developer Forum today, Dadi Perimutter, head of Intel's Mobility Group, dropped a bomb (via PowerPoint) on his...
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OXPC? Thoughts on Windows XP on the OLPC
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If you’ve been around Techmeme in the last few hours you probably read about the agreement between Microsoft and One Laptop Per Child about making Windows XP...
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Stay Tuned: Untold OLPC Hardware Story Coming Soon [Announcement]
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Due to some mysterious server mumbo jumbo, our untold story of the OLPC's hardware beginnings—featuring amazing facts, fun pics and an exclusive video interview...
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Laptop Mag's XP OLPC Experience is Not Mine
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Cant' speak to the exclusive nature of Laptop Mag's running an OLPC running XP as I've been running one here for several weeks. I am finding a totally different...
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OLPC's open source qualms underscores a larger limit
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It's all very noble. MIT researcher and pundit Nicholas Negroponte challenges the PC industry to develop and sell a $100 PC for poor countries so their populations can be...
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Hackety Org
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Thankyou for enjoying The RedHanded Adventure Show. We have had the nth batmans galore!! I adore you. I will never forget you. I will especially not forget you if you...
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Did the big boys really kill OLPC?
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The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer...
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ResearchBuzz Roundup 051808
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Online memorial planned for China quake victims. What a great technology term…. Creepy Treehouse! Pandia interviews Northern Light. OLPC is getting Windows????...
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Nicaragua
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In a few hours from now (at about 4AM Utrecht, The Netherlands) I’ll leave with a taxi that takes me to a bus, which takes me to Brussels; from where a plane takes me...
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It is the poor carpenter who blames his tools...
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This week, OLPC had a dust up, a kerfuffle even. Walter Bender, OLPC's former president of sofware, left the organization. Why? Well, some think it was because of the...
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Sugar UI Wins IDSA Award
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The 2008 International Design Excellence Awards were announced today and Sugar, the user interface designed by Lisa Strausfeld and her team for One Laptop per Child,...
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Stormy Peters: Sugar (the software on OLPC) and my conversation with Walter Bender
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I had a good conversation with Walter Bender, former president of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and the founder of Sugar Labs. Sugar is the software that comes on OLPCs. It...
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Noble goals and politics at the OLPC
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The “One Laptop Per Child” project (OLPC), the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, was envisioned as a way to bring the cost of computing down to a level where...
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OLPC gaining momentum in India?!
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To describe Indiaâs relationship with OLPC as ârockyâ would almost be an understatement. Back in 2006 for example the Indian Ministry of Education was very...
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Windows XP ready for OLPC notebooks
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Microsoft has finally completed the OLPC version of Windows XP, the company has announced. The scaled-down operating system has been released to manufacturing, and is...
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XO in the classroom - the whole story
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I've written frequently about the XO Laptop here, and I thought it would be useful to try and organize all those writings in one place. I certainly did not start out the...
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Hands on with OLPC and Windows XP
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We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was going to be showing up on OLPC’s XO. Starting in September the little laptop meant to inspire children in developing...
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Move over, OLPC -- the $12 Apple II-based PC is coming
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Filed under: DesktopsAlright, so it won't be a laptop, adorable, or have a cheeky Linux-based OS that's eventually replaced by Windows, but unlike the OLPC or the...