LinuxRocks! wrote:
> http://news.com.com/Negroponte+Slimmer+Linux+needed+for+100+laptop/2100-7346_3-6057456.html?tag=nefd.lede
>From the article:
| "People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems," said
| Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit
| association, in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo
| here. "Suddenly it's like a very fat person (who) uses most of the
| energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten
| fat, too."
NN will be happy to learn that kernel.org still archives all the 2.0.x
series kernels. In 1998-99, a 500 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM was a
kickass workstation.
| "I said, 'That's too bad, because I need 100 million a year.' They
| said, 'Well, maybe we can change our strategic plan.' That's the
| reason you need scale," Negroponte said.
100m laptops/year * $100/laptop = $10b/year. To put that into
perspective, "ring tones" are a $1b/year industry just in the US.
Incorrect conclusions one could draw:
* You could finance the whole project by
putting a 1000% tax on ring tones.
* US schoolkids would rather have a new
laptop than individual ring tones for
their ten closest friends.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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