Re: [tlug] One laptop per child

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

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.