Blizzard: One Laptop Update

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"I wrote up a long update on where we are in the software and hardware for the One Laptop per Child project. We've gotten a lot done, but I don't think that's been communicated to the outside world very well. So, for the first time, here's an update of where we are. Hopefully I'll be able to do this on a regular basis.

"In the One Laptop project we actually have two kernels. The first kernel, found in the BIOS, is based on LinuxBIOS. The second is a kernel that's built from Red Hat's sources, and aside from a few patches and a different configuration, is a pretty standard OS kernel..."

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