Star Four Countries Commit to Four Million OLPC Laptops
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Aug 2006 17:05 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems A spokesperson for the One Laptop Per Child program revealed July 31 that the countries of Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have each committed to buy 1 million Linux laptops through the US-based program. Last week it became known that Nigeria ordered 1 million laptops.
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Finalzone
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2005-07-06

hmm, i could have sworn that maemo uses gnome as base.
You are right.

[...]doing what microsoft tries to do with the tablet and origami systems are a realy realy bad idea.
The big difference with other technologies like origami system is its educational purpose, its durability (keyboard is water resistant) and its power efficiency. Users can manually power it with foot paddle (currently, the design is in discussion).

if the device is handheld or have a small screen, other ways need to be found
Check http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification

Remember OLPC softawes is based on Fedora Core which means future version of the latter will get significant enhancement that will also benefit to the Open Source.

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hobgoblin Member since:
2005-07-06

with my microsoft comment i was refering to their (ms) attempt at using the same windows desktop for both handheld and ordinary computers.

now that i think about it, it may work if your design it for handheld use first, and then apply it to a desktop/laptop system (if the desktop have a touch screen attached). but the other way around is to reliant on key combos and the mouse (and a stylus or similar cant replace the mouse fully)...

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