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OLPC Available to the Public Early 2008
Zoxed writes "The BBC is reporting that the OLPC will be available to the public early next year on a buy-2-get-1 basis through eBay. With its cheap price, fully open spec. and full/open hardware support for Linux, expandability, 2W rating and LinuxBIOS booting it sounds like an embedded-Linux hackers favorite new toy."
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OLPC is not 'Linux hackers favorite toy' - It'll be running Sugar, a complete failure for a user interface, obviously designed by a committee of 'child experts'.
Just watch that google video. It's insulting to the intellegence of even the most stupid of children.
And do you really think these things are going to be 'given' to the children to 'play with' and learn as they would.. - oh no! They'll be carefully controlled, supervised and hamstered away at classrooms, where the kids will have to do exactly what the teacher wants them to do: "now, timmy, move the pointed to this icon and click it, then draw a circle... "
So much for the dream of creating a Linux generation - these kids will grow up to be another bunch of helpless cubicle retards at telemarketing caves...
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Why would you buy one of these for a six year old? It is severely crippled and dumbed down. Wouldn't a full featured computer for a little more money be a much better investment in your daughter? My two year old has been running Ubuntu for over a year now with no problems. Recently, he has even taken to doing his own updates. Now, I like to think my kid is overly bright, but if you think that your 6 year old daughter can't use a full featured computer on her own, you are probably under estimating her.