Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by happykid
Hardware, Embedded Systems The road to the One Laptop Per Child has been riddled with humps and bumps, such as hardware issues, the failure of the 'G1G1' scheme, and the inability to reach the USD 100 price mark, culminating in the resignation of the project's president yesterday. Now, Negroponte, the project's founder and chairman, has stated something that might alienate the project's strongest supporters even further: the OLPC might evolve into using Windows XP only.
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RE[2]: The wrong direction
by Different on Tue 29th Apr 2008 04:08 UTC in reply to "RE: The wrong direction"
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OLPC can run Windows via a terminal server such as ThinServer XP

http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm

If the OLPC is made Windows based, it still can run Linux software via NX Machine

http://www.nomachine.com

This is true meaning of freedom of choice

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