--- In [email protected], Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True!! I cannot understand, why the OLPC chose this one!!! They could use > Xubuntu...
Its the objective - one Laptop for child (focusing mostly for the undervedeloped and developing countries). So we are talking aboyt the cheapest possible hardware platfrom, a really really power saving computig platfrom with a very very very simple UI for a child to quickly adopt it. The idea supposed to be that children in villages or remote areas with use it with too much lurnig curve and less wory to supply power to it. (i guess i don't need to explain the problem availability of electricity in underdeveloped countires. And also *less power consumption* is the mantra as the western world also knows that electricity is expensive and have impact in environment) So, what you do? you take a linux distry (so no license fee), trim its fat (less memory == less cost), reducing its background computing and graphics intensive computing (less power usage + less hardware cost - no fancy vdo supoort, no fancy resolution of screen) and finally simplify the GUI for a child (there goes your KDE/GNOME desktop with menu icon taskbar clicking dragging, context menu, right click etc) So now think about how Xubuntu could meete those conditions? I see OLPC as a really appreciable technological effort. The sign that MS is moving on to this proves that its a succees to it stated objective. Its really a laptop that can go to the hands of childs in some remote village of bangladesh or like. MS would want that generation to grow up without windows. Instead its a perfect vehicle for them to push their product into the hands of next generaton. Btw, theres a cool feature of OLPC. I was using it in the last conference. It can do wireless mesh networking. So you dont need a access point/router/hub to set up a LAN. Bring few olpc close and fireup. You have got your network. How cool is that!!!!!!! cheers, Soyuz
