Amazon to Start Selling the OLPC XO Laptop on Nov. 17
Posted in: XO, tags: amazon, olpc, xo laptopFinally, the OLPC XO laptop will soon be accessible to individuals who have been wanting to take part in this worthy cause. OLPC has announced that it will start selling the XO Laptop through Amazon.com on November 17. The XO Laptop will sold through Amazon the G1G1 program where individuals will have to pay for one laptop for the price of two units. The other laptop will be donated to a corresponding child in a developing country.
This would certainly help the OLPC in getting more mileage on their worthy project. However, there seems to be one glitch on this deal. The OLPC XO laptop that will be sold in Amazon will only have the Linux OS. No Windows XP version will be sold. I wonder how easily the recipient kids would be able to adopt to Linux as an OS for the XO?
The XO Laptop will initially be sold through Amazon’s US storefront only but there might be chance that it would also be available in other countries later on.
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At last, it’s one laptop per Child, not one laptop per Geek.
I certainly doubt, that children will have software demands which can be solved only by products which are only available for windows.
Uuuhm! – you’re askin’ for it, dissin’ Linux like that.
Straight up: I’d rather give a kid a laptop with Linux on it. This isn’t a preference; I’d just feel REALLY BAD hobbling a KID WHO HAD NO MONEY with software that required him to PAY FOR EVERY LITTLE THING he might otherwise have wanted to accomplish in his life.
I’m pretty sure that it will be inifinitely easier to just download the Gimp ($0.00) than it will be for 30 third-world children in some single-room schoolhouse to come up with $700.00 for Photoshop CS.
(By-the-by, the version of linux on the XO is made with a desktop gui suited for kids with usable applications for them, it’s not like your basic Ubuntu desktop; you might check out the OLPC website and take a look at it).
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Thanks for this valuable post. I love gimp.