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Amazon UK May Cancel G1G1 Global Orders
Submitted by srlinuxx on Monday 15th of December 2008 08:30:44 PM Filed under
olpcnews.com: Heads up to European Give 1 Get 1 donors! Amazon.co.uk may be canceling your G1G1 Global purchase because OLPC is talking too long to ship your XO laptop.
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Why are Child Soldiers & Prostitution in OLPC Videos?!
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 10th of December 2008 10:40:38 PM Filed underolpcnews.com: Joanna Stern at Laptop Mag asks "Has OLPC gone too far" with their latest promotional video, one that starts with child soldiers training to fight and child prostitutes soliciting for sex, before promoting XO's for children:
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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Optimized for XO Laptop
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 5th of December 2008 04:07:25 PM Filed under
olpcnews.com: Thanks to the tireless efforts of Teapot, we now have Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid optimized for the XO laptop! Teapot designed this release to be reliable and consistent with these modifications:
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Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 19th of November 2008 06:25:49 PM Filed undereducation.zdnet: I posted a number of pieces Monday about OLPC and its XO laptop (now for sale on Amazon in a reboot of the Give One Get One program), one of which declared that OLPC was dead. A year ago, that would have been worthy of a pretty serious flame war.
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Why I switched to the OLPC—and why I dropped it
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 4th of November 2008 03:03:51 AM Filed under
Richard M. Stallman: The One Laptop Per Child project, launched by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte in 2003, was supposed to lead millions of children around the world to information technology and freedom. The plans aimed for low cost, enabling many children to use the machines, and free software, so they would have freedom while using them. I thought it was a good idea. But...
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Fedora 10 on SD Card for the OLPC Laptop
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 29th of October 2008 01:48:31 PM Filed under
on-disk.com: For adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use, the Fedora 10 option allows your XO to behave in a more familiar way.
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Kids like Sugar better than XP
Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 24th of October 2008 01:36:51 PM Filed under»
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OLPC / Amazon preparing to bring G1G1 to Europe?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 1st of October 2008 11:26:47 AM Filed underolpcnews.com: There were 4 big questions when it was first revealed that Amazon would be running this year's edition of the Give 1 Get 1 program. 3 out of these 4 questions have been answered so what about the last one? Well, for the first time there are some indications that OLPC and Amazon are preparing to bring G1G1 v2 to Canada and Europe.
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Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops From November
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 4th of September 2008 09:26:47 AM Filed underpcworld.com: Amazon.com will start selling One Laptop Per Child's low-cost XO notebook computer as part of the Give One, Get One program OLPC developed last year, according to an official from OLPC.
Also: Sugar openSUSE live
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Another OLPC man goes his own way
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 24th of August 2008 06:30:10 PM Filed underitwire.com: Another stalwart of the One Laptop per Child Project has gone his own way - after telling project founder Nicholas Negroponte that he (Negroponte) had failed to go beyond the stage of a prototype.
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