On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 20 Oct 2008 23:25, Sameer Verma wrote: > >> Hi Saswata, >> >> The only thing I know of in the near future is the Give one Get one >> program that will begin on Nov 17 via Amazon >> (http://amazon.com/xo). This is going to be a US only deal at first >> but there are plans to take this to Europe and Asia. > > Will the next version ship with linux? or a mangled version of doze ? > > --
They are all shipping with a version of Fedora (v9). No versions exist in the wild with Windows XP Unlimited Potential (XP for 3rd worlders...wonder whose potential they refer to?) except for a batch of XOs being piloted by Microsoft in Peru. The XP versions do not have Sugar or mesh networking. The Give 1 Get 1 machines that will ship in Nov via Amazon will be Linux only. You can boot the XO into a Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian or Gentoo, etc. build by using a SD card with an alternative build. This will give you XFCE or GNOME on the XO. The Windows versions are only available from MSFT. All this is of course second hand info because I haven't seen the Windows XP version (a select few at OLPC have). I tend not to worry about stuff I can't get my hands into :-) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > Rgds > JTD > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
