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Thread ID: 62218	2005-09-30 15:59:00	A Linux User In Every Mud Hut.......	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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392310	2005-09-30 15:59:00	....not here of course, but in underpriveleged 3rd-world countries for children to carry to school under their backpacks/rucksacks or spearcases...is this how they are gonna get new Lin users? Get 'em young when they don't know any better? C/P here from Silicon Valley News: Think of it as open-source education. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of MIT's Media Lab, announced the One Laptop Per Child program back in August, with a goal of developing and distributing a $100 Linux-based machine to more than 150 million schoolchildren within the next three years. Soon he will take another step toward that worthy goal. Negroponte and his cohorts at the lab will unveil a prototype of the $100 laptop at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on Nov. 17. The rugged 500MHz laptop, which can be powered by AC adapter or via a wind-up crank, will run a "skinny version" of Linux and feature a two-mode screen, 1GB of memory, four USB ports, and Wi-Fi support. Quite an achievement, and one that is sure to do lots of good. "Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education," Negroponte wrote earlier this year. "We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that." I thought "wind-up crank" is a Lin user anyway...no? (wearing flame-proof undies today) .....and now if they get IPG in the world, every hootch with a hanging naked lightbulb will be on the internet too....	SurferJoe46 (51)
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