All these XO threads

[Peter Robinson]

> For those in the US the folk at OLPC will have another give-one:get-one program
> this fall..  The XO is cute and yes nifty.  A serious Linux USER will find it a bit light
> on horsepower and memory but marvelous.

Through amazon none the less and starting on Nov 17th. Details are at
http://www.amazon.com/xo/

> As far as a teaching tool goes the software and teaching concepts can
> be applied to any laptop not just the XO.   The hardware enables the
> software as much or more than the other way around.
>
> It has yum,
> It has a window manager (matchbox)
> It has a desktop (sugar)
> It has bash
> It has python
> It has wireless networking

Including mesh networking.

> It has Ctl-Alt-F[123] alternate shell
> It has an X server.
> It has user accounts...
> It has a web browser (firefox)
> It has a Fedora kernel...
> It has USB ports (three).
> It has a mousepad
> It has a keyboard....
> It has a LCD display with an advantage.

+ SDHC slot, webcam, audio in/out

> Loading software is different... no DVD/CDROM.

Not the only device though nowdays with all the Netbooks that don't
have an optical drive

> When all is said and done it runs Fedora....
> and this is a Fedora list.

Peter