“The $100 laptop designed by the Massachusetts Institute for
Technology (MIT) and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association,
previewed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
conference in Tunisia last week, will be using a Redhat Linux
variant as its operating system.“The lime-green laptop, which uses a 500Mhz AMD processor and
has 1GB Flash RAM instead of a hard drive, will only use open
source software, despite an offer from Apple for it to use Apple’s
OS-X operating system for free…”
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