Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Jun 2006 21:11 UTC
The One Laptop per Child project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory. Speaking on the final day of Red Hat's annual user summit, Negroponte told an audience of Linux enthusiasts and technology professionals that the OLPC project will lead to mass adoption of the operating system, if the software that powers it is efficient and usable enough.
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2006-01-03
I don't know why I bite, but ...
The definition you are providing is anything but objective (and truthful)
Saying "A hacked version" you wrongly imply something very bad has beed done to it. "An adapted version" sounds a lot less agressive, though it is the same.
"with no KDE or Gnome" is a lie. There is Gnome.
Yo imply that "many common applications removed" is the same as "crippled". Oh, please, this is not a computer for Fortune 500 CEOs; it is an instrument for children to learn with. Many common applications are unnecessary, or even undesirable in this context; many NEW applications will have to be developed for the OLPC to fulfill its EDUCATIONAL role. So, establishing a sensible app set for the OLPC is not "crippling" unix, it is "optimizing for the task".
So you ask if "a hacked version of Fedora Core 5 with no KDE or Gnome and many common applications removed is not "crippled".
I say that the OLPC has "an adapted version of Fedora sporting Gnome and a set of applications that is optimized for educational tasks".
You ask "What is the real educational gain to these people in developing nations by getting a crippled Linux distro on non-standard hardware?"
I say "kids in developing nations will own portable computers loaded with an optimized Linux environment and educational applications and texts that will help their school system give them a good education while saving lots of money".