On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Eric Martin wrote: > For anyone wanting to try it out : > > http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/
Just to clarify, "it" refers to the software not the laptop. > On 6/9/06, Ed Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> I'd like to see about getting a prototype to show around our >> community >> and schools, etc. That would be nice. I think it would bring a lot of younger folks into the FLOSS fold. >> I think they are missing out on an untapped market. Maybe. If I had $100 I doubt I'd spend it on such a laptop. I'd get a bigger bang for the buck buying a desktop system. But that's only because I (we) have access to relatively reliable, cheap electricity. That's probably not the case for the $100 Laptop's target audience. 'course, could be wrong about that. >> However, I also predict in a few years these will be just so much >> landfill. $25 or less on eBay. I'd like to believe the folks designing these items have taken that into account, but I haven't seen anything on the website that says they have or have not. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
