Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th May 2008 09:29 UTC
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project have announced an agreement to work together on getting Windows XP available on the XO laptop, with trials starting in June 2008, and the RTM date set for August or September. Microsoft also demonstrated Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 running on the XO laptop - fully featured.
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RE: It's open-source, fork it!
by Alleister on Fri 16th May 2008 20:22
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That would be quite pointless now. Since there isn't a very easy way to install a new OS on the OLPC and it would be very difficult to distribute it in the places the XO is meant to go it likely wouldn't be very accepted.
The only thing to do with the OLPC project now is to warn everyone about it and not waste your unpaid altruistic work towards it anymore.
Seriously, if it still was meant as a educational platform, it would not ship with office. Children do not have *work to get done*, except if they work in a sweat shop. I have a really bad feeling about this... i fear in a couple of years we will see office versions of swearshops if the project is a success.
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What we need now is somebody who would be able to create an improved Linux distro, tailored specifically at OLPC. With all the Sugar interface, less resource usage (XFCE, anyone?), improved init system, etc.
Then compare it to the "superb" XP offer from Redmond. If it was well executed, this Linux distro would easily kick butt of this sized-down Windows.
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I even have a name for it: Linux On OLPC, in short LOLPC.
???
Then again, maybe LOLPC is not such a good name after all? Just kidding
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