Hi there,
Good discussion and great to see a reference here, regarding the Zero
Dollar Laptop project...
We have been collaborating with Access Space, on this project in London
and are also in the process of getting other projects set in motion
regarding ZDL.
We have recently finished working with Homeless groups/individuals in
London ST Mungos; who were involved taking part with 8-12 week
workshops, learning how to smash Windows, and replace recycled/reused
laptops with Linux. After the workshops finished they walked away with
skils and a free laptop.
Here is a link to the project if anyone is interested in knowing more:
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/
wishing all well.
marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
> I second that suggestion, I currently still use laptop bought in 2002
(yes
> 8 year old! ) and still can do a lot of stuff with it... (including
> youtube browsing, music making, pd patches, etc ... )
> for the record, there was some measurement done not long ago showing
> today's top smartphone are as powerful as the CRAY I from the 80's ...
> are we sure we always need a supercomputer in our pocket/bag ?
>
> Ol.
>
>>
>> hello
>>
>> As a promoter of the zerodollarlaptop project, I would suggest that:
>>
>> - you only change your harddisk for a better, faster one, may be a ssd,
>>
>> - install a double or triple or quadruple boot, to have any distro
>> you want. My mac with double boot puredyne and osx is perfectly
>> working. (boot with efi)
>>
>> About the zerodollarlaptopproject:
>> -industry of computers is a disaster, in terms of mining, ressources,
>> politics, ecology, society, human costs
>> -most of our computers have reached a sufficient level of performances.
>> -growth is impossible to sustain if we want to live on this planet.
>>
>> Read the manifesto:
>>
>> http://zerodollarlaptop.org/wiki/doku.php?id=minimanifesto
>>
>>
>> JN
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> My trusty MacBook Pro is getting a bit on in years (four years old now)
>>> -- no hardware problems to speak of yet, but this is approaching the
>>> mean time to fail for laptop hard drives. At the same time, I've been
>>> using puredyne Linux on a netbook and enjoying it a lot. (I'd also
>>> consider ubuntu studio but don't need the recent flashy gnome stuff -
>>> puredyne uses xfce4 which, while antiquated vis-?-vis UI features, is
>>> FAST.)
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