On 11/1/07, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/chi-thu_cheappcnov01,0,2557485.story?coll=chi_breaking_500 >
Interesting. Slashdot also has an article: it's a Via C7 processor, half-a-gig of RAM, 80 GB HDD, running a custom Ubuntu distribution with Enlightenment as the desktop manager and Google supplying Google Apps, Blogger, Desktop, etc, The Trib article, otoh, is a little weak: "They're offered at a time when charitable efforts ... have struggled to achieve results. Those laptops now are to cost $200, but the program has yet to deliver a product." Cheap shot. OLPCs are in manufacturing now. "To get to $199, First International Computer had to forgo software made by Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc. and try the little-used open-source computer platform." Little-used? 30 or 40 million PCs worldwide is not little-used? Little used by companies like Google, HP, IBM? Little-used as a desktop OS? True. http://www.thinkgos.com/index.html is the operating system site, if you're interested. It will be interesting to see if this things got legs. It's not the first consumer-level machine offered with Linux, but there aren't any larger retailers to offer it. Wonder what will happen. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
