OLPC: November 2008 Archives

Now that Amazon has taken on the chore of processing orders for the One Laptop Per Child program, which aims to put forward-thinking, rugged and cheap computers in the hands of children throughout the developing world, now is the perfect time to either "give one" to a child in need ($199) or "give one, get one" ($399) and both provide one for a child while getting one for your own kid (or yourself, since the comments at Amazon make it clear that adults really dig this little laptop).

While there has been a lot of controversy over the OLPC, mainly due to Intel not being happy that the project chose an AMD processor and Microsoft not being happy that the Fedora GNU/Linux-derived Sugar operating system was ... not Windows.

Now that the OLPC is being modified to run Windows XP, supposedly because foreign governments have been demaning such, the OLPC project is slashing and burning any goodwill it had in the free, open-source software community for the moneyed arms of Microsoft.

At any rate, as it stands right at this very moment, the OLPC still runs Sugar and looks to be a great educational tool for kids all around the world ... so if you're rolling in it, why not roll a little their way?