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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Dec 2006 17:35 UTC

Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday. "I have known Bill Gates his entire adult life. We talk, we meet one-on-one, we discuss this project," said Negroponte, vnunet.com can reveal. "We put in an SD slot in the machine just for Bill. We didn't need it but the OLPC machines are at Microsoft right now, getting Windows put on them."

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RE[2]: Tell me..

by helf on Tue 5th Dec 2006 20:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Tell me.."

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2005-07-06

"ROM". The OS is in ROM if I'm not mistaken. So if you 'hose' the OSes, you reset the unit. and if it lets you fsck up config files to the point it wont boot, then it should have an option to boot without loading user config changes. If it doesnt, then it is a stupid design.

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RE[3]: Tell me..

by ronaldst on Tue 5th Dec 2006 20:37 in reply to "RE[2]: Tell me.."

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2005-06-29

I was imagining some poor kid being stuck at the GRUB command line.

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