UNIX/LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS - OLPC - One Laptop per Child
OLPC - One Laptop per Child. In January 2005, the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop - a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), was created, which is independent of MIT. The OLPC Foundation's mission is to stimulate local grassroots initiatives designed to enhance and sustain over time the effectiveness of XO laptops as learning tools for children living in lesser-developed countries. The OLPC Foundation is a tax-exempt social-benefit organization headquartered at One Cambridge Center, Cambridge Massachusetts, 02142. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to make a low-cost PC for the developing world, has released the Linux software that will run on the machines when being deployed. The software, a Fedora-based Linux operating system, streamlined to just 291MB, is designed to offer learners a simplified interface to perform tasks. The OLPC project has released a LiveCD version of the software that anyone can use on their PCs directly from CD without the need to install anything to their hard disk.
OLPC Vision:
http://laptop.org/en/vision/
OLPC Laptop:
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/
OLPC Wiki:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home
XO-1 Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child
One Laptop Per Child Linux software released:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1451
OLPC Sugar interface tour gallery:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/olpc-sugar-interface-tour-gallery/
OLPC's Linux-based operating system available for download:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/olpcs-linux-based-operating-system-available-for-download
Download Index of /olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd:
http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd/
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