On Mon, 21 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >One Laptop per Child on 60 Minutes, Sunday May 20 > >http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/18/one-laptop-per-child-on-60-minutes-sunday-may-20/ > > > >If you are following this project, you will find that they have > >standardized on a Linux distribution. Why not Solaris? I leave this to > >be answered by the "Linux is useless" crowd. > > Why then does it ship with a $23 "embedded Windows" distribution?
It doesn't The reporter claiming that it did was speculating wildly that hardware changes being made to the XO spec were intended to allow Windows to run. Subsequent reporters spun that speculation even further ;-) See, for example, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-olpc-project-clarifies-no-plans-for-windows-support.html Chris Blizzard and Jim Gettys both have interesting blogs on the subject: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=285 http://www.gettysfamily.org/wordpress/?p=34 later, chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
