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Microsoft goes after OLPC.

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jannus
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Last thing I heard was that the project uses Linux with a customized interface that is easier for the kids to understand...

Weren't a million of those shipped already to Mongolia, Peru and Nigeria? I don't think they had XP on them, they all had Linux.
 
^ The OLPC (aka the "XO" computer) uses a customized version of Red Hat Linux as its native OS. Red Hat Linux was likely chosen because Red Hat happens to be located across the street from M.I.T. (Red Hat was founded by M.I.T. graduates). Red Hat engineers also agreed to work on the project free, and the end product is open source and is provided free of charge.

I don't know how many OLPCs have been sold to date. The project's goal of $100 per laptop has been dependent on their reaching certain volumes of production, to bring down the cost per unit. When Intel began (often successfully) offering its "Classmate" product in competition with the OLPC, this frustrated the OLPC's production plans, keeping their costs per unit higher, and limiting the number of computers they were able to distribute. To try and get the production numbers up, the OLPC project briefly offered the OLPC for sale to Americans and Canadians only for a period of about five weeks in late 2007.

Every OLPC to date has shipped with its native Linux, dubbed "Sugar". Microsoft is evidently still working on porting Win XP to the OLPC, since their announcement is that they will conduct "field trials in January 2008." Porting XP to the OLPC should be easy, since the OLPC's hardware is basic "off the shelf" stuff and documentation of the system is readily available. In fact, quite a lot of other versions of Linux have already been ported to the OLPC. Here, for example, is a demonstration of Pepper Linux, running on the OLPC:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbvESavw78
 
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