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Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K
eldavojohn writes "Perhaps in response to recent news that the lawsuit against the OLPC may be a scam, Peru's government has announced they want 260,000 OLPCs and a Mexican billionaire by the name of Carlos Slim has also asked for 50,000 that he wishes to distribute in Mexico. Things are looking good for the OLPC."
They'll find they can run a lot more programs concurrently. Don't believe all that '640k is enough for anybody' bumf.
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> If people had bothered to read the ... article
This is Slashdot. Not even the editors read the articles. There are only 10 people here who read the articles. First is the submitter and the other is you.
Yeah, but he does have Olympic medals in both Limbo and Sex... ... err, wait.. that's Barbados Slim...
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...by the name of Carlos Slim.
Uh, just the richest man in the world. Funny how no one ever hears people refer to Bill Gates as "An American Billionaire by the name of Bill Gates".
Dear eldavojohn... you must be very ignorant.
Incorrect, the submitters always read the articles. If they didn't, then once in a while an accurate summary would arise by pure dumn luck.
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Except that the OLPC systems run Linux. What are the chances of finding someone at CompUSA who would know anything about them? Might as well take it to 7/11.
And if a computer tech from a major store can't figure out GUI linux, how can we expect it to make inroads into mass market?
I have some hope...if we can incorporate texting into the command line, we may be able to hook an entire generation of kids:
user@ubuntubox:~$ what r u
Description: Ubuntu 6.10
user@ubuntubox:~$ sup
top - 14:36:37 up 39 days, 4:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 70 total, 2 running, 68 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu
This server is going down for shutdown NOW!