"Intel offered a sneak peek of the next-generation of its Classmate PC design at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today. The new design features a tablet, touchscreen, and motion-sensing user interface, and is powered by - you guessed it - an Atom processor."
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Considering the earlier incarnation of this machine was part of Intel's quite deliberate attempt to destroy the OLPC project, my own feeling is that the Classmate should by boycotted. If I needed a machine like this, I'd wait for one from someone else. The article, with the pics of schoolchildren from around the world, would like us to think that Intel cares. Intel doesn't.
Edited 2008-08-21 18:58 UTC
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intel is first and foremost a business, and business's stay alive by making money. you can hardly hold it against intel for seeing an emerging market and wanting a piece of it. Intel is not just some evil souless corporation, they do a lot of good for compunities, open source, the environment, and so on.
to hate them just because you need someone to hate is fine, but don't put them down without knowing the facts first.
http://www.intel.com/intel/corpresponsibility/index.htm?iid=siteind...
http://www.intel.com/intel/environment/index.htm?iid=siteindex+corp...
http://www.intel.com/community/index.htm?iid=siteindex+corp_communi...
...the list goes on and on
Edited 2008-08-21 19:51 UTC
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For accuracy's sake - Mandriva was one of the OSes certified for the original ClassmatePC, but not the only one. Windows XP was also certified. Both have been used in production installations of ClassmatePCs. I don't think there were any other certified OSes, but IMBW on that one.
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If that's talking about the new Classmate, I don't know if that actually has anything to do with MDV at all, I'm not sure what the status with the new Classmate is.
AFAIK the original Mandriva-on-Classmate didn't have any custom mesh networking stuff. At least, it didn't when I saw it. I may be entirely clueless on this, it's not a project I was heavily involved in 
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