News On Laptops For Education

AdamWill notes a Mandriva press release with the news that the government of Nigeria has selected Intel-powered classmate PCs running Mandriva Linux for educational use in a nationwide pilot. About 17,000 machines will be involved at first. We can only wonder at the maneuvering and negotiations that went on with the OLPC project. The latter had its first announced order for 100,000 XO machines, from Uruguay, with a potential for 400,000 over time. The bigger news out of OLPC is that Microsoft is porting XP to the platform, and chairman Nicholas Negroponte says that's fine with him: "It would be hard for OLPC to say it was 'open' and then be closed to Microsoft. Open means open."

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Open

[ls -la]

chairman Nicholas Negroponte says that's fine with hin: "It would be hard for OLPC to say it was 'open' and then be closed to Microsoft. Open means open." But 'open' DOESN'T mean that the XO project should have doubled the specs and cost of the OLPC so Microsoft would have an easier time porting to it.

Re:Why not Vista??

[Anonymous Coward]

LISTEN UP

THIS IS THE NATURE BOY COMING TO YOU LIVE FROM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, A LITTLE PLACE WE LIKE TO CALL BOSTON MASS

Vista on laptops is a non starter. You call that an OS? I've taken dumps that are more stable and secure. Vista? More like Wishta. Wish'd I never installed that heap of shit on my computer.

You don't have to like it, but you will learn to LOVE. IT.

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Re:I ask for your advice

[arth1]

It takes one to know one?
I'm not the least bit surprised that someone high up in Nigeria raised a finger and said "wait a minute" when there were plans to buy tens of thousands of portable devices from the brother of the US national intelligence czar, and who also coincidentally just happened to be on the ethics committee for the newspapers who have praised and hyped the XO, and similarly coincidentally just happens to be a board member or consultant for several of the parts suppliers for the OLPC project...

"Charity" and "at cost", my ass.

Funny definition of "open"

[trolltalk.com]

"It would be hard for OLPC to say it was 'open' and then be closed to Microsoft. Open means open."

So when is Microsoft going to release the source? Or does "open" mean "closed"?

mod 3own

[Anonymous Coward]

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