The Intel version is not necessarily a Windows only version. This simply the way they are marketing the product.
----- Original Message ---- From: rbw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Friendly list for people new to Linux <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:21:57 PM Subject: Re: OLPC Randall Shimizu wrote: > Are you referring to the MIT designed OLPC or the Intel designed version...? > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Friendly list for people new to Linux <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 2:49:42 PM > Subject: Re: OLPC > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0800, Stephen Boddy spake thusly: >> Thanks for the calendar update. Have you had a chance to use the OLPC > (One >> Laptop Per Child) platform or know someone in the community that has > one? > > I have ordered my OLPC. It has not yet arrived. When it does I will be > sure to bring it to a meetin and let everyone play with it. > This Nicholas Negroponte is a curious guy. With Brian Lamb he is all smooth and conciliatory and here: http://www.news.com/Negroponte-Windows-key-to-OLPC-philosophy/2100-1016_3-6215837.html he is antagonistic poking a stick in the eye of Intel and MS. BTW exactly who is afraid of MS on the OLPC? They want to put "a stripped-down version of Windows XP" on OLPC. Yeah that sounds like that will work just peachy... An older piece on Negroponte going after Intel for "pissing on" him: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9721242-7.html My weasel radar was way, way up on this guy although I am rooting for him and the FOSS/OSS version of OLPC. rbw -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
