The Linux Laptop designed by Negroponte at MIT may be the most important piece of technology designed by Western civilization in the 21st century. Capable of doing mesh networking and running Linux, it will provide a new baseline of portable computing never seen before. Besides usage in education, it also promises a level of computer power and connectivity unseen in the rest of the developing world. It will be perfect for public safety and emergency use alone.
It is one of the tools needed now down in the dual hurricane strike zone in the US SOUTH.
It can work as an multimedia access point, etc. It may end up creating a new market for powerful lowend power computing. Companies at first wont sell this in the US, but I see these selling in Walmart within 2 quarters.
Some of you are worried about a new generation of script kiddies. I see a generation will be be raised on the contents and access of Google and Wikipedia. Students in the US will need this just to keep up with the rest of the world.
This product may single handedly turn the computing market upside down and make some giants out of molehills and kill or seriously maim Microsoft in the world market.
Let the maiming begin. Go Negroponte go.
Adam sans the handcrank on my laptop.
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From: Sid Boyce
At 07:48 AM 30/09/2005, Sid Boyce wrote:
B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE folk, Since this is an international list I thought many of you would not see this. I thought it is important for you to know. It was a newspaper article in the St. Petersburg Fl. Times. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has developed a very innovative and rugged $100 dollar laptop for children which is to be mass produced and runs Linux. Within a year 5 to 15 million will be produced for children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa. Within a few years 100 to 150 million will be made and distributed to children all over the world. The State of Massachusettts will purchase 500,000 next year to distribute to their school children. To see the entire article visit the folowing URL. http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/29/Worldandnation/Goal__100_laptop_for_.shtml
IMAGINE !!!! 100 million kids learning to use Linux !! Bob S.
A chilling thought, thousands of 7 year olds doing kernel development and writing Linux apps. Jon "Mad-dog" Hall some years ago told us at the London conference of such a kid who walked up to him at Atlanta and said "Mr. Hall, you may not remember me, but I sent you the Linux kernel patch that ..............". It gives King Billy a few more sheep to count at nights on top of the toasting Massachuchetts handed out and the thought that there are several more states and governments no doubt have their strategy defined for them and Mother MS knows best isn't working. Looking forward to the Linux World Conference and Exhibition at Olympia next week Wed/Thurs, shall be there on Wed to savour the delights and perhaps pick up a copy of SuSE 10.0. Regards Sid. /cut
scuse me, but the best programming I ever did was back when I was just out of teens, I was playing in assembler then, and that was at the beginning of the home computer age. I reackon I would have been even better if I had started earlier as i would not have any preconceived ideas on what and how something must be done!
scsijon
I can appreciate that, the older I've got, the less programming I've done, seems like a bygone age when the only way to decide whether a mainframe problem was hardware or software was to trawl through dumps and fixing hardware problems involved cycling through assembler instructions, checking registers and getting down to a failing logic gate. I wish I had that sort of knowledge of the much simpler PC architecture and instruction set. My C programming skills have all gone to pot as well. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com