Comments on: Amazon to Start Selling the OLPC XO Laptop on Nov. 17

By: Gimp Tutorials

Gimp Tutorials — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:25:36 +0000

Thanks for this valuable post. I love gimp.

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Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:26:00 +0000

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OLPC XO now at Amazon | Eee PC - Blog — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:41:17 +0000

[...] we have reported before, Amazon.com starts today to sell the OLPC (One Laptop Per [...]

By: Buck Flameproof

Buck Flameproof — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:17:32 +0000

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).

By: Sascha Vogt

Sascha Vogt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:22:14 +0000

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.