:LinuxWorld: Doing It for the Kids, Man: Children's Laptop Inspires Open Source Projects
LinuxWorld: Doing It for the Kids, Man: Children's Laptop Inspires Open Source Projects Oct 30, 2006, 13 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6803 reads) (Other stories by Don Marti)
"A network of developers who work on much of the most commonly used software on Linux is passing up multi-core monsters with gigabytes of RAM to target their code to a design of which only 500 prototype boards now exist: the 'Children's Machine 1' from the One Laptop Per Child project. OLPC aims to put machines that function as a textbook collection and as a writing, drawing and music tool into the hands of schoolchildren, through large sales to national ministries of education.
"The CM1 is tiny and slow by current hardware market standards..."
