Run the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) OS on Your Computer | Linux Today

Run the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) OS on Your Computer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2007

“Has the OLPC project and the ‘Sugar’ OS piqued your interest
with all the press coverage it has received? Thankfully since the
whole project was created with an open source mission, users can
easily download the OLPC OS (Which is a fork of Red Hat) and run on
any hardware they see fit.

“If you run VMWare (Player for PC or Fusion for Mac) we made it
easy by making available a pre-configured VMWare image of the OLPC
OS that is already customized (and has networking enabled) that you
can download here…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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