Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Sep 2006 22:49 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Red Hat's OLPC lead has written an update on the OLPC project on his weblog. "I wrote up a long update on where we are in the software and hardware for the One Laptop per Child project. We've gotten a lot done, but I don't think that's been communicated to the outside world very well. So, for the first time, here's an update of where we are."
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2006-07-29
Not that they need to be scared of Apple, but if PC manufacturers like Dell and HP want to give Apple a run for its money, the OLPC model may just show them how.
1. Take a free OS that runs on commodity hardware
2. Build a highly focused and coherent hardware platform
3. Tweak the OS to support the platform goals (i.e. low power consumption, fast startup, etc.)
This way, vendors get to provide sophisticated hardware with the much-vaunted benefits of a matched hardware-software platform without locking users and developers into a proprietary model like OS X.