CIO Jury: $100 laptop will boost Linux

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 19, 2005 1:11 PM EDT
Silicon.com; By Steve Ranger
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The hand-cranked laptop could be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006. The goal of the One Laptop Per Child project is to ship the devices in quantities of more than one million per order, for schoolchildren to keep...The group has already turned down an offer from Apple to provide the Mac OS X operating system for the systems because they want to use open source software instead - probably Linux.

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