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Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops
bonch writes "Steve Jobs offered Mac OS X free of charge to the $100 laptop effort by the One Laptop Per Child project. However, his offer was declined because the project was looking for a 100% open source solution. The laptops will now be running on Red Hat Linux on AMD chips."
If Steve offers OS X to you for free, you take it. Red Hat sucks
Less corporate market exposure paid for by the government.
More critical thinking skills for the kids that get to fix their linux installs instead of clicking on pretty icons.
signatures are for fools with hands
Exactly, but ask yourself what is "their task"?
...who knows, we might end up with people that actually *understand computers*, and not just "[Windows | Mac] users"
Let's not confuse this with "our tasks", that is, "surf the web, write emails, play games". The point of these machines is to teach them about computers. Teach them how to install Slackware, how to compile an app from source, how to build apps...
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There's rpm support you moron. I should know, i've used it.
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
This project will fail and fail misrably. nd all you, right on linux guys are a buch of idiots. If you actually thought about it you would realize what a disaster this will be. inux itselfe can be hard to work with, the gui is nice but most of the time I find myselfe using terminals and manually editing the etc files because the gui configure apps are woefully lacking in usability and configuration options. f these laptops were dfor a country full of geeks and weirdos that were being trained to be some kind of sardukar of the tech world than linux would make sense. but we are talking about deploying these things to countries where people can barely read let alone operate a computer. this is like the south park episode starvin marvin, where the misionarys are giving the locals bibles and telling them not to eat them. if you are going to give computers to people who will need to use them to learn the basics like reading writing and basic communication, you shouldn't give them a computer that requires advanced computer troubleshooting skills so that they can install ( read, get rpm, install, find missing dependancy, get rpm, install find another missing dependancy, repeat ad nausium.) the reader neccesary for the digital book that is sopose to teach them how to read. The target people for these laptops arent the type of people that will want to tweak the OS. Hopefully someone will wake up and at least offer the choice of linux or OS X as an operating system for these computers. that way budding geeks can choose Linux, and the people who just want to learn and use their computers can use OS X. as someone posted ealier, why not also offer windows if its for free. let the end user decide not someone who is trying to push an agenda. f apple is smart thaey will offer a 200$ educational laptop and drive this project into oblivion.
You have a chance to get an OS that's easy to configure and use or an OS that no one really uses who isn't in a technical field that's not all the easy to use or configure. This is supposed to be for kids so you would have their interests in mind, not your own ideological interests. What do you do? Make the stupidest fucking decision imaginable! What a fucking asshole! This is why no one takes open source etc. seriously. Its filled with ideologues who have no concept of the real world.
I don't know what someone tagged you as flamebait for responding
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welcome to apple.slashdot.org, where the RDF is ultradense and permeates everywhere. do you really have to ask why truth is modded down here?