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OLPC's "Give 1 Get 1" Comes To Europe

Posted by kdawson on from the can-i-play-tictactoe-on-that dept.

Christoph Derndorfer writes "Last year OLPC's XO-laptop was among the hottest Christmas gadgets thanks to the organization's G1G1 program, where you could donate $399 to give one XO-laptop to a child in the developing world and receive one yourself in return. However in 2007 the program was only available for US and Canadian citizens. This year's program, which takes off November 17, is also available to citizens in the EU member states, Switzerland, Russia, and Turkey. This is certainly awesome news for all the OLPC / Linux / gadget enthusiasts here in Europe! P.S. Before anyone asks, these XOs will come equipped with the child-friendly Sugar platform, which is based on Fedora 9, and not Windows XP."

5 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. FRIST PSOT!!! by michaelmuffin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lalala!

  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Porn

  3. Re:Pandora is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Very short battery life??? My eeePC 901 claims 8 but gets gets a very real 5 1/2 hours running XP. I think that's pretty decent!

  4. Re:Pandora is better by vawarayer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why oh! why have we switched from talking about a program that could benefit both the poor and the rich at the same time, to the latest fashion in techno gadgets?

    Your egocentric attitude is killing me.

  5. Re:How relevant is it now? by uassholes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bullshit.