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First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the photo album, and you can pledge to buy one at triple price... in order to donate 2 of them to children.

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  1. How adorable!! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Awwwww, look at their little ears! I just wanna pet them!

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    1. Re:How adorable!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      Awwwww, look at their little ears! I just wanna pet them!

      What an incredibly racist thing to say. They're human beings, not animals.

    2. Re:How adorable!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      I am an animal, you insensitive clod!

    3. Re:How adorable!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I am an insensitive clod, you animal!

    4. Re:How adorable!! by samsonov · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is it me or do the colors come close to a Speak and Spell?

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    5. Re:How adorable!! by TheGavster · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wind over IP is one of the great technological triumphs of our time

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    6. Re:How adorable!! by Reverend528 · · Score: 3, Funny
      Wind over IP is one of the great technological triumphs of our time

      Alternately, you can send IP Over wind by way of avian carriers. Just be sure to run a virus scanner on your incoming packets to ensure they don't get the bird flu.

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    7. Re:How adorable!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm in Soviet Russia, clod insensitive you!

  2. Software Question by rlp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it come with the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer?

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    1. Re:Software Question by bgarcia · · Score: 2, Funny
      Are there enough teachers in the wide world to go along with these laptops?
      I'm sure there are plenty of Nigerians willing to train young children in the finer points of email and Western Union money transfers.
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    2. Re:Software Question by Hillgiant · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does the cover have the words "Don't Panic" in freindly yellow letters?

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  3. Re:These look great! by FyRE666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you recall, Steve Jobs offered to license Mac OS X to this project for free and they refused.

    Yeah, maybe the caveat that it required the purchase of a powermac G5 with widescreen monitor to qualify wasn't popular?

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  4. Re:Freedom where art thou? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    After you left the US, where did you move to?

  5. Lain by Kyru · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, it's a Navi, nice.

  6. Re:These look great! by sammy+baby · · Score: 1, Funny
    It should be noted that the 'horns' are for directional wireless (and also cover USB ports when not in use) - remember that if you want to mock them!

    The horns don't make me want to mock them - I just find it ironic that they didn't go with another operating system.
  7. Horns by Roger_Wilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    With those horns, shouldn't it be running BSD? :)

  8. BSD by Catskul · · Score: 5, Funny

    In that red/orange color and with those ears/horns, it kina makes me think it should be running bsd.

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  9. Re:Freedom where art thou? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    What the company did with their profits would be their business.


    It depends. Are they classified as a non-profit in the US?
  10. Re:I'm in... by greenguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Won't someone think of the children?? Oh, wait... someone did!

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  11. Re:419 on its way by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 4, Funny

    The children have to be taught how to spam. It doesn't come naturally.

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  12. Re:Fedora is bloatware, why not something smaller? by carlislematthew · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree, although I would also consider ObscureLinux and WTFLinux. Or perhaps we could create another 10 competing new Linux distributions specifically for this project? That'll help...

  13. Re:Jobs' offer was grandstanding by ChrisGilliard · · Score: 1, Funny

    They didn't want to make all these kids Apple's or Microsoft's customers. They wanted them to have access to easily extensible software with the code completely available. Any proprietary OS would have been contrary to the goals of the project.

    Last time I checked OS X is based on BSD. Since BSD is open source, the kids would have access to the source.

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