[News] Another Look at Innovative Capabilities of Linux-powered OLPC, Eee PC
Roy Schestowitz
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| James Cameron works for a computer company in support for enterprise Linux
| customers, and is deeply immersed in electronics, radio and software
| engineering. For the past two years Cameron has devoted his diverse technical
| talents to testing the wireless network component of the One Laptop Per Child
| project.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1228527977;fp;16;fpid;1
Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
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| If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago,
| there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?
|
| [...]
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| No word yet on US pricing, but we're trying to pry it out of them.
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
Related and recent:
One Laptop Per Child: one trainer prepares
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| Few computing projects cry out so much for an open, grassroots-driven
| strategy for deployment, but the government ministries that procured the XO
| systems and arranged for their disbursement have operated in a traditional,
| top-down fashion. There have been complaints about that in the media and the
| Peruvian blogosphere. Sebastian himself is talking to ministers, and they’re
| making progress in getting more transparent.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/02/one_laptop_per_child_one_train.html
Related:
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
|
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
|
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
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| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
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| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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Mark Kent
> Coming to a watering hole near you: OLPC's mesh networking
>
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>| James Cameron works for a computer company in support for enterprise Linux
>| customers, and is deeply immersed in electronics, radio and software
>| engineering. For the past two years Cameron has devoted his diverse technical
>| talents to testing the wireless network component of the One Laptop Per Child
>| project.
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> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1228527977;fp;16;fpid;1
>
> Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
>
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>| If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago,
>| there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| No word yet on US pricing, but we're trying to pry it out of them.
> `----
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
Umm, E399 is awfully inexpensive for a laptop of such specification...
2008 is going to be a very interesting year in the linux laptop world.
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Roy Schestowitz
> Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> espoused:
>> Coming to a watering hole near you: OLPC's mesh networking
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| James Cameron works for a computer company in support for enterprise Linux
>>| customers, and is deeply immersed in electronics, radio and software
>>| engineering. For the past two years Cameron has devoted his diverse
>>| technical talents to testing the wireless network component of the One
>>| Laptop Per Child project.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1228527977;fp;16;fpid;1
>>
>> Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago,
>>| there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| No word yet on US pricing, but we're trying to pry it out of them.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/
>
> Umm, E399 is awfully inexpensive for a laptop of such specification...
> 2008 is going to be a very interesting year in the linux laptop world.
Big companies like H-P and Acer are working on low-cost ones. That might be the
first time large companies (with all due respect to Asustek) enter this market
and realise that the overpriced laptop/desktop is a dying market that deserves
maybe 50% of the market, not much more. It will hit them in the pocket, but
it's good for the customers.
"Race to the bottom..." (Without Vista)
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Mark Kent
Asus seem to be appearing in numbers at the moment. I've two Asus mini
machines here now, one doing mythtv and the other one as my desktop.
Frankly, I've more confidence in these than I have in some of the
"major" manufacturers producing something good. Asus have a lot of
reasons to be very linux-compatible, HP, Acer and others are probably
still being pulled from pillar to post.
Roy Schestowitz
Early talks about the Eee with Windows XP show that the cost would /DOUBLE/.
And that's after Microsoft discount. Oh, dear.
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DFS
> Early talks about the Eee with Windows XP show that the cost would
> /DOUBLE/.
Do they now? And where's your link for this silly claim?
Mark Kent
But don't forget you'd also need to licence Microsoft Office and some
kind of Anti-Virus ware which would cost Łloads more and the anti-virus
would slow the machine down something rotten.
Roy Schestowitz
> kind of Anti-Virus ware which would cost £loads more and the anti-virus
> would slow the machine down something rotten.
Oh, yeah... I didn't even think about it. But the reviewer from ZDNet (he saw
this in CEBIT) actually complained about the weight and size. It's like a...
laptop... just heavy and expensive. No Linux, no favourable scale and price.
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