On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:24:37PM +0800, Junn Flores wrote: > OLPC Project - What has already happened? > > http://laptop.org/ > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6224183.stm > > > Does our government even care about signing up with this? Or has it? Or > is it just too expensive for us? But then again, I think the payment > could even be done in a span of years. Rwanda (Africa) even signed up > recently. > > Filipino education is going down to shameful levels as obviously the > government no longer gives it the needed support. And in exchange for > what? Maybe this is one thing the government should consider for our > children, our future. > > Pardon me if I'm just seeing hopelessness with this government. > Sentiments. Maybe someone could enlighten me. > > BTW, the project seems to be promising more than what it initially > projected. The components are getting to more streamlined, more > efficient end products. Better software? The leanest they can get.
Yeah,but I also read that brazil,one of the countries that strongly supports linux,is considering a similar project by intel. That project's laptops is worth about $400 but it has the cooool option of installing winBLows. I wonder if that would be a consideration for our government. > > A happy new year to everybody. :) > > > > begin:vcard > fn:Salvador Flores Jr., LPIC-1 > n:Flores;Salvador > org:University of the Philippines;Computational Science Research Center > email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > title:Network and Systems Administrator > note;quoted-printable:LPIC-1=0D=0A= > MCP=0D=0A= > =0D=0A= > > version:2.1 > end:vcard > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- -- Ralph Bacolod,RMT,MT http://rafiks.blogs.friendster.com/linux_rules _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
