Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 5th Apr 2006 01:06 UTC
The One Laptop Per Child organization will use Linux on its inexpensive machines, but the operating system suffers the same code bloat as Windows, the project's leader said Tuesday. My Take: A few months ago I blogged about this as if I knew what was coming. I still believe that the $100-laptop project should be targetted as an embedded application and so Qtopia with ARM is a better/cheaper/faster solution than Fedora/RHEL with x86. If Palm is able to sell the Zire 22 at $99 and still make lots of profit (yes, they do), then it is probably feasible to manufacture and market my suggestion at $100.
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A possible setup at school for the students would be to provide several LIVE CD flash elements to be loaded by the instructor as desired with flash loading stations for the students laptops.
Several LIVE CD OS'es could be studied and utilized thereby.
A bare minimum of storage would be required to enable the special needs of the LIVE CD OS boots. (Actually now flash memory elements) since no CD is provided (too much power).
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2006-04-05
Most comments and activities related to this device have emphasized only single Linux OS types for use in the unit.
I propose using a number of Linux types, one built in OS of suitable size, and a number of LIVE CD linux types, such as Puppy Linux, DSL, Slimmed KNOPPIX, and others.
Many extra programs would be possible if such an arrangement were included, and not all repetitious of each other.
This assumes a CD is included...............