Re: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop

[Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just hope it will boot from K12LTSP, Edubuntu and any other OSS server 
software, not just a Google replacement for MS.

Daniel

At 07:55 AM 9/29/2005, you wrote:
> I just noticed an article on this as well.  It has me excited, and can't 
> wait to see what the prototype looks and works like.
> On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
>
> > Came across these sites:
> >
> > haven't noticed this being discussed here.
> >
> > A $100.00 dollar laptop running linux - intended for education in the
> > developing world - and likely very practical for the developed world to.
> >
> > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935&tag=nl.e589
> >
> > prototype to be released at  World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
> > http://www.itu.int/wsis/ in November.
> >
> > It looks like it is intended to support tablet style use (in addition to a
> > keyboard)- so one can use it without using a keyboard.  This opens many
> > avenues.
> >
> > Gord
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