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Re: [News] Ubuntu for UMPCs Runs on OLPC (UMPC Buzz)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:50:38 GMT

In article , Moshe Goldfarb. wrote: > > Does this version freeze up like the other versions of Ubuntu? > No, but it blue screens like Microsoft Windows. The developers decided that that's what accounts for their competition's popularity.

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OLPC 8.1.0 Build 703 (MobileViews Blog)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:14:31 GMT

I didn’t notice until today that OLPC 8.1.0 Build 703 was released a month ago (June 5). What’s new in the official-703 (8.1.0) release? The big end-user change is that closing the lid now suspends the XO and opening resumes operation. I was shocked that it didn’t do this from day 1. The other big change is that [...]

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Links 05/07/2008: Ubuntu Runs on OLPC, Germany Assists FOSS Migrations (Boycott Novell)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:56:38 GMT

But… I think I have stumbled upon something amazing. I will be installing this next week, and experimenting to let you know how it goes. I have discovered Gentoo.

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Installing Ubuntu On an OLPC XO (AterSlash)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:20:44 GMT

How in the world do hackers get their hands on these while the children they’re intended for don’t'There was a promotion when OLPC came out that allowed you to purchase one. In doing so, another OLPC was sent to a child as well.The OLPC project had stated that a consumer version of the XO laptop is not planned.[8] However, the project established in 2007 the laptopgiving.org website...

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Installing Ubuntu On an OLPC XO (CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:19:46 GMT

Matt Lincoln Russell writes “Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the OLPC XO is not for the faint of heart, but Drew Beckett has got the process down. This setup is pretty slow on the XO, but the good news is that Netbook Remix is a work in progress, and can be expected to get better.”

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One Laptop Per Child Organization Cannot be Trusted! (Geek News Central)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:43:07 GMT

In early 2007 I ran a series of events that raised money for OLPC. We were successful in raising enough money for 5 OLPC laptops pairs to be purchased. I ordered 2 units first, followed with 3 more several weeks later....

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Slower than molasses going up-hill (Fedora Planet)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:31:57 GMT

For the past 3 days the OLPC Translation System is just that - can someone please give it some love ?

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Laptop.org Reality Check: No More "$100 Laptop" Slogan (One Laptop Per Child News)

(Wayan Vota) no_spam@olpcnews.com — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:56:28 GMT

Have you looked at laptop.org , the One laptop Per Child website recently? Maybe you noticed a subtle change in the title of the site. In the past , there was a direct reference to the marketing price of the XO laptop: One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a $100 laptop for the world's children's education Today, I happened to glance at the title,...

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12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports (AterSlash)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:04:15 GMT

You know… that comes out to about 1004000 laptops every five years.If we could only get airport personnel to increase their “output” we could scrap that pointless One Laptop Per Child project. Those things cost money. These would be like… for free.

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Grassroots repair centers: Nice wrinkle plus for OLPC’s laptop project—plus more thoughts on the XO-1 as an e-reader (TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:41:11 GMT

Did you order an OLPC XO-1 laptop through Give One Get One—only to find that it took forever to reach you? Oh, and what about the so-far-disappointing e-book software? Yes, the OLPC project has its negatives. If only the organization had made the laptop available to more people in affluent countries and hadn’t been [...]

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OLPC tries to bridge gap with developer community (Computer World)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

There's a big ideological gap between developers, who espouse the XO laptop as a watershed open-source project, and One Laptop Per Child, which wants to sell more cheap PCs, one observer says, and now OLPC is trying to mend fences.

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Nigeria pulls the plug on its OLPC order (cyrusfarivar.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:34:43 GMT

Vanguard : Dr Aja Nwachukwu, the Education Minister, told newsmen in Abuja that the scheme was discovered to be a “white elephant” project. “We discovered that the scheme is a conduit pipe to siphon public fund,” he said. Nwachukwu said the ministry was working on other options to promote the deployment of ICT at all levels of education. [via OLPC News ]

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OLPC Nigeria One Year Later: Hard Lessons Learned (One Laptop Per Child News)

(Wayan Vota) no_spam@olpcnews.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:40 GMT

Khaled Hassounah introducing OLPC Do you remember the massive press orgy a year ago when One Laptop Per Nigerian Child debuted at L.E.A. Primary School Galadima in Abuja Model Village? How the great Foreign God held high his gift of knowledge to the poor dark-skinned children of Africa, and OLPC proclaimed: All of a sudden, School Galadima has gone from the age-old chalk-and-board teaching...

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A Hubris Model of One Laptop Per Child Implementation (One Laptop Per Child News)

(Jon Camfield) no_spam@olpcnews.com — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:07:43 GMT

BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm and Geri Smith have written One Laptop Meets Big Business , a good article summing up the recent history of the OLPC project and it's difficulties with sales numbers, fading promises, Intel, and its internal strife over the Microsoft decision. OLPC hubris co-conspirators? None of that information is particularly new, but the article continues and goes...

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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in PNG (the Masalai blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:27:29 GMT

By Emmanuel Narokobi The OLPC project has been a pet interest of mine since I first read about it in an edition of Time magazine in 2005. I wrote an update about it here and I was even more ecstatic to hear earlier this year from David Leeming at the UPNG ICT Workshop that trials [...]

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OLPC XO laptop buyers, today is the last day to activate your free T-Mobile Hotspot account (Gadgets Blog News)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:35:33 GMT

During the “Give 1 Get 1” sale for the OLPC XO laptop, T-Mobile had been offering a free year of T-Mobile Hotspot access with any G1G1 purchase. Well, it seems that there was a time limit on just when you could activate your account and begin your free year of service and today, June 30 is the last day to take advantage of that offer. So if you were amongst that group and for some reason have...

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Laptop Review (Blog Catalog Blog Directory)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:08:30 GMT

Acer Laptops ,Asus Laptops ,Eurocom ,Hard Disk ,Laptop Computers ,Microsoft ,Notebook ,OLPC ,Sony Laptops ,Toshiba Laptops ,Windows Vista ,Windows XP

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OLPC Ottawa-DC meet up at Nortel in Ottawa, Canada. (Lemmingworks)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:36:35 GMT

Clevergirl organized an OLPC meetup in Ottawa recently. Check out her report and pictures.

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Greg Smith Joins OLPC as Product Manager (One Laptop Per Child News)

(Bryan Berry) no_spam@olpcnews.com — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:18:40 GMT

I am extremely excited to announce that Greg Smith has joined OLPC as Product Manager. Greg has been a long-time volunteer. Greg is an experienced project manager previously at Cisco, he gets Constructionism, and he is tireless. And did I mention that he has been an occasional contributor to OLPC News? As an OLPC volunteer, he has logged many hours over the last twelve months...

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Nicholas Negroponte (Greg Laden's Blog)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:28:59 GMT

Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

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