Comments on: $100 laptop gets working prototype

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project shows off a vivid orange PC and trims its software load.
Photos: Laptop model sees orange

[ahickey]

Smaller Linux

The article comments that they have Linux down to 250MB.
This sounds strange, as there are a number of really small and fast Linux distributions that are much smaller.

Is there a specific reason that they are using Fedora Core rather than a smaller distribution?

[firstlast]

Maybe

Maybe you can in future get support from RedHat, other small distros are without support.
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[ahickey]

Smaller Linux

The article comments that they have Linux down to 250MB.
This sounds strange, as there are a number of really small and fast Linux distributions that are much smaller.

Is there a specific reason that they are using Fedora Core rather than a smaller distribution?

[firstlast]

Maybe

Maybe you can in future get support from RedHat, other small distros are without support.
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[J.G.]

So far, so good

It sure looks like the project is going to meet its goal of creating a
low-cost, mesh networkable computer.

[J.G.]

So far, so good

It sure looks like the project is going to meet its goal of creating a
low-cost, mesh networkable computer.

[Ryan Qian]

I will buy on if sell to the world

I think is better than PDA, just like a book easy to read :)

[Jackson Cracker]

not unless you have a lot of money

They will be offered in mass quantities, not individual sales.

[Ryan Qian]

I will buy on if sell to the world

I think is better than PDA, just like a book easy to read :)

[Jackson Cracker]

not unless you have a lot of money

They will be offered in mass quantities, not individual sales.

[lingsun]

It's a scam.

People are going to make money from governments to give this useless laptop to people who can't even be helped by it. Poor people in poor countries need clean water, adequate housing, healthcare, employment, the rule of law, a proper court system, and a government that doesn't stifle economic freedom for the benefit of a few. That $100 laptop isn't going to do anything for the poor children in Mexico. That's why millions of Mexicans are coming here instead.

[lingsun]

It's a scam.

People are going to make money from governments to give this useless laptop to people who can't even be helped by it. Poor people in poor countries need clean water, adequate housing, healthcare, employment, the rule of law, a proper court system, and a government that doesn't stifle economic freedom for the benefit of a few. That $100 laptop isn't going to do anything for the poor children in Mexico. That's why millions of Mexicans are coming here instead.

[vnenet]

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