OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/17804/OLPC_Talks_on_Google_Software_Install_Servers_More Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:52:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com OLPC Loongson http://osnews.com/thread?235865 http://osnews.com/thread?235865 The OLPC people should make agreements to use the Loongson processor in the next version so Microsoft cannot sabotage the project anymore.

Loongson 2F will use 2W max at 1GHz and is comparable in performance to Digital's Alpha and SGI's MIPS processors with a much lower power envelope. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (psychicist) Comments RE: OLPC Loongson http://osnews.com/thread?236127 http://osnews.com/thread?236127 "
The OLPC people should make agreements to use the Loongson processor in the next version so Microsoft cannot sabotage the project anymore.
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I'd hardly call Microsofts envolvment 'sabotage'. Linux is the default OS and all the OLPC project have done is given the 3rd world an option to install Windows should the choose to. Windows is no more forced upon them as it is on Mac users. Tue, 01 May 2007 12:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments