Comment Why send just email when you can send code too? (Score 1) 1

by Blaketh on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @12:33AM (#23167800) Attached to: OLPC's Negroponte Wants to Scrap Linux

As much fun as it may be to write angry emails, there are other activities which bring all us folks to Slashdot, and one of them is writing code.

OLPC has a very active, open, and welcoming (if not always cordial) developer community. OLPC has tricky and fun problems. Its developers always love to see patches that a) make their lives easier, b) help the end users, and c) show off how good Linux really is. Their (mostly open) hardware is really good. Please help make the software match.

Mailing lists: http://lists.laptop.org/
Wiki, dev help: http://wiki.laptop.org/
IRC channels: #olpc on irc.freenode.net

Submission + - OLPC's Negroponte Wants to Scrap Linux (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @05:50PM

An anonymous reader writes: OLPC needs high quality software on its machines, but the amount of abuse ladled out over OLPC's developer community is incredible. First they are called "terrorists", now it's "fundamentalists". In a new article, Negroponte suggests firing all of OLPC's existing GNU/Linux developers and replacing them with developers who can somehow make Sugar run on Windows. Any competent manager would realize this fanciful porting effort spells nothing but years of delay; Negroponte apparently exists in a dream world where Microsoft is a competent software company which both cares about the world's children and plays nicely with its smaller "partners". Email Nicholas Negroponte or OLPC's Board of Directors and let them know this time OLPC's gone too far!

Comment Re:Sadly, no... (Score 1) 126

by glug101 on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @03:58PM (#23162924) Attached to: Walter Bender Resigns From OLPC

I couldn't agree more about the hardware. If anybody that reads this can point me to a laptop that meets the following criteria, I would likely buy it tomorrow.

1. Costs less than $200
2. Uses little enough electricity that it could be powered by a person. (Like the power yo-yo developed for the OLPC)
3. Can be used in the rain.
4. Folds into a tablet like handheld display.
5. Can survive being hauled to school by children in a 3rd world nation.

I don't think you can find laptop hardware with the capabilities of the OLPC in the private sector for 2x the price. Come to think of it, the give 1 get 1 was actually a good deal. I wish I would have had $400 to take advantage of it.

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