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Negroponte kicks of OLPC day at Red Hat Summit
Friday turned out to be One Laptop Per Child day at the Red Hat Summit here in Nashville.
Nicholas Negroponte delivered a keynote on the project that aims to provide low cost laptop computers to children in developing nations. His presentation was largely the same as the one that I saw at Linuxworld in Boston earlier this year, but it's still good to see how well this topic resonates with the open source crowd.
But there was a large difference in that the project last week received a first working prototype. In a session following Negroponte's keynote, Red Hat's Christopher Blizzard showed off the prototype for everyone to play around with – and later that day gave us a private demonstration of which we shot a video.
The $100 laptop is real, and at the current rate is set to give Microsoft and Intel a run for their money.
Negroponte with a model (not a working system).
The real thing
This one is running Fedora, but the user interface is likely to change.
Christopher Blizzard
Tags: olpc, one laptop per child, linux, microsoft, intel, red hat, negroponte
June 2, 2006 at 08:42 PM | Permalink
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El viernes se convirtió en el día del One Laptop Per Child (un portátil por niño) en el Red Hat Summit de Nashville. Nicholas Negroponte desarrolló una conferencia sobre el proyecto que se dirige a proporcionar portátiles de bajo coste... [Read More]
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How can I get one???
Love this product. I saw the episode of 60 Minutes and I knew I wanted one for my thgree year old!!!
Posted-by: Georgianne Gordon | 5 Dec 2007 00:13:46
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