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Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop - Times Online

"Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it..."

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LernSoftware - skolelinux.de

Ein Linux für edukative Zwecke - mit viel Zusatzsoftware für den Unterricht. Soll auch af XO-Laptops laufen.

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How Microsoft forced open a new window of opportunity | The Observer

MS "by the back door is disappointing, but not a disaster. It will keep the project alive & it will still be possible to get the Open Source version ... [&] a dual-boot version ... A better sales opportunity for Open Source could not be envisaged"

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Planet OLPC

One Laptop Per Child.. . "It's an education project, not a laptop project." - Nicholas Negroponte

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Linux.com :: OLPC looks ahead with optimism

OLPC XO laptop update from COO Walter Bender.

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Micropolis Downloads

This is the binary and source code for Micropolis (A.K.A. "S*mC*ty": see the GPL License and additional terms, below), which is released under the GPL.

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Intel vs. OLPC blow-by-blow - New York Times

Some juicy particulars of how Intel's alliance with One Laptop Per Child--never genial to begin with--fell apart.

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Signposts of GNU/Linux Growth in 2007, Part 1

Interesting. See in particular mention of OLPC XO Laptop and ASUS micro-laptop, the Eee PC.

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Linux.com :: Hands-on with the OLPC XO laptop -- and loving it

Great review of XO by Joe Barr, a well-know Linux journalist.

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One Laptop Per Child orders surge - The Boston Globe

Good news indeed. 190,000 XO's ordered in less than a month, with a month to go.

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The Little Laptop That Could...One Way or Another | Xconomy

"Still, I think the Journal article gives short shrift to a critical issue—how in "failure" something like OLPC is really likely to be an incredible success, no matter what the final numbers are."

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Groklaw - Some Ideas for Marketing the OLPC

PJ on the OLPC. Well worth a read, as is usually the case with a post from PJ.

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Sugar, the Linux-based Operating System of the XO Laptop

Here is a series of screen shots of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) operating system's (Linux) interface called Sugar. The collaboration focus is awesome - just flip thru the slides and be amazed!

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Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops - CNET News.com

OLPC's Khaled Hassounah deploy the company's first child-friendly laptops in Africa and the Middle East.

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