This article from Access North Georgia’s Newsroom describes how there is a investigation in Cobb County into allegations that, "the bidding process for the 100 million dollar laptop program was slanted in favor of apple."
Making a laptop for 100 million dollar hardly seems that difficult. Some of us are more ambitious.
If you haven’t seen it, the first demo of the laptop was unveiled in Tunis and is totally green. Congratulations to everyone else who put in long days (and nights) on making this demo shine.
Do you have more technical details?
A dmesg of the kernel booting would be nice…
This is brilliant but I’m not too sure I like the partnership with Murdoch…
seems to be an AMD500 inside:
http://flickr.com/photos/andycarvin/tags/100dollarlaptop/
Benjamin, do you have a shell on one of those boxes?
It is very similar to a 500MHz AMD GX Geode. That, of course, is not the exact final version that will be shipped (this was a demo after all) although it is probably very close.
I do have shell accounts but the machine is not on a network and I cannot give you one.
From http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=270 :”I suspect the software – a version of Redhat Linux optimized for a diskless environment – is also well thought out.”
A debian version would not be better?