Re: 500 million Linux laptops in next year

2005-09-29 Thread Gautam Bakshi 
On 9/29/05, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting article on BBC news:** Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled **Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),outlines blueprints for a sub-$100 PC. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact 
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i heard about it also...Hopefully many children in third world
countries will benefit and also spread linux more around the world.

Re: 500 million Linux laptops in next year

2005-09-29 Thread Andy Streich 
On Thursday 29 September 2005 09:40 pm, Gautam Bakshi wrote:
 On 9/29/05, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Interesting article on BBC news:
 
 
  ** Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled **
  Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
  outlines blueprints for a sub-$100 PC.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm 

 Yea i heard about it also...Hopefully many children in third world
 countries will benefit and also spread linux more around the world.

See http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

(actually it is 100 million, not 500 million, but who's counting?  Seems that 
RedHat is involved.)

Andy


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