Submitted by The One Laptop Per Child project has decided to utilize a Linux 2.6.19 OLPC kernel with a Red Hat Fedora Core 6 ‘run-time environment’ for the first build of its giveaway portable notebook computer, the project’s president for software and content said Sunday. OLPC executive Walter Bender announced the decision via his weekly progress report.
There was a program to sponsor some of these : has it gone anywhere ?
Like paying twice the price, so you get one, and one children gets one too for free.
If you can plug a transfo in it, and add a disk drive (512 MB is not enough for me), I need no better hardware to replace my old thinkpad as a router/firewall.
Especially as it will consume very low power, it could be even better than the thinkpad.
So it would be useful, you do some good action, it’s a win-win situation (for me).
I think the 2.6.19 kernel is also pretty mandatory, for the additional power saving functions it includes.
Edited 2006-11-10 15:37
AFAIK that sponsor program was just a suggestion people outside of OLPC made — it was never real. I could be mistaken though.
[ Why not donate $100 to OLPC and use a real router as a router? 😉 ]
Here is the link: http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
They only had 3,678 people sign up to buy them at $300 each, missing the required 100,000.