One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Thomas McCarthy
Have you folks heard about this? Especially you ed people. http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptop-contact.html Runs on Linux. Let's make some great freeware for it! ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread rev
Quoting Thomas McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you folks heard about this? Especially you ed people. http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptop-contact.html Runs on Linux. Let's make some great freeware for it! THere was a project a few years ago that tried to use RISC OS (stalled because the

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Pierre Sahores
Has been presented this week again at the Tunisian United Nations e- Information Worldwide Conference (sorry for the french spoken issue) : http://solutions.journaldunet.com/actualite/depeche/28/112305/ le_prototype_d_un_ordinateur_portable_a_100_dollars_presente_a_tunis.sht ml Best, Le 18

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Judy Perry
Yeah, I've seen it bandied about on the Newton list as well as on MacNN. I think it's based on something like a 333 MHz G3 processor (or analog)... Apple offered Free OS X but MIT declined. The reviews I have read haven't been favorable... but I've only read the reviews/comments. Judy On Fri,

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Judy Perry
Aren't there some crank-based ones too? One or more cranks for 30 min. battery life I think... I'll take a look to see if I didn't delete any of the Newtontalk posts. Judy On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THere was a project a few years ago that tried to use RISC OS (stalled

Re: One Laptop Per Child project

2005-11-18 Thread Charles Hartman
I myself could *really* use that sometimes. And if they want crank-based software too, maybe I could help . . . Charles Hartman On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Aren't there some crank-based ones too? One or more cranks for 30 min. battery life I think... I'll take a look