Re: [tlug] One laptop per child

[Bruce Howard <bruce@example.com>]

On 13 Mal. 2008, at 4:01 AM, steven smith wrote:

phillip tribble wrote:

Regarding http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17112/1090/  ,

This is an interesting article on how they are trying to push Windows

XP on the OLPC. Quoting the author "It looks like the good Nicholas

wasn't satisfied with providing these unfortunate kids with something

with which they were unfamiliar. So he's thought of giving them

something which they encounter every day - viruses.".

We had a demo of the OLPC last night and the talker mentioned that Microsoft already has XP running on the OLPC.  It's ungodly slow.  Since the box only has 1Gb of flash and 256 Mb of ram, this will be interesting... :)

Steve S.

My daughter's OLPC gets a bit poky under *linux* when you run more than a few apps at once.  

I don't want to think how slow XP would be!

Cheers,

Bruce