“The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as
popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to
Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT’s media
lab.“Speaking on the final day of Red Hat’s annual user summit in
Nashville, Negroponte told an audience of Linux enthusiasts and
technology professionals that the OLPC project will lead to mass
adoption of the operating system, if the software that powers it is
efficient and usable enough…”