I filmed 32 videos at the Linaro Connect show they are all listed at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0312674085648DD6 or http://armdevices.net/category/tradeshows/linaro-connect/ . I tried to write the summary here on Slashdot. You can pick and choose the interviews you want to check out. I'm not selling anything except trying to get more views on my ARM Linux related videos that I'd expect to be of the interest of slashdot users. There is also a summary keynote by Kiko (Engineering Lead) of Linaro recorded in a hangout (with echo for now) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0C4FoQIb3Q#t=3m40s they'll upload a higher quality video of that and many other HD interviews and presentations in the next few days or so probably on http://youtube.com/linaroorg

This is essentially 100% of the developing world kids to have gotten any laptops at all.

Sure mr troll under the bridge. Intel has no relations with OEMs like Asus whatsoever, and Intel also manufactures the Classmate all by themselves, not by any chance in the same Pegatron factories that make Asus Eee laptops. Asus Eee was a staged marketing stunt orchestrated by Intel for Asus to block OLPC sales, go look back.

You are welcome to get a XO development machine and show that Mint works great on it.

Apple can install Mac OSX on any OLPC XO laptop today and have always been able to, just to prove that they can make it run. OLPC laptops are 100% fully dual-bootable, just put any other compatible OS on the SD card and reboot. To this day, I don't believe Apple has provided any compatible version of OSX for these laptops. OSX is closed source, only Apple can come and provide a compatible "Light" version of their software to run on the machines. Apple prefers to keep their money at doing other things.

Archos officially allows you to root your Archos Android Tablet using a "Special Developer Edition" firmware. Thing is, for official root support on such compact embedded devices you have to loose the warranty. At least for now. For example, you could write code that constantly over-clocks the processor or abuses something else in there and that can harm the hardware, so manufacturer is not able to support that.

Total US Military Spending 2010: $685.1 billion That's about $2 Billion per day.

The relation is Governments and Money. It would absolutely be a military strategy to invest in education, every $1 spent on education could be worth 100x more towards bringing peace than every $1 spent on artillery or tanks.

It's useful to compare things, analyse money transactions for understanding the value of things. For the price of 1 day of the US war in Afghanistan, all the kids of the whole country of Afghanistan could get a laptop. Shouldn't the head of military strategists consider that it may be worth it, that giving all the children in the whole country this type of tool could calm down some of the suicide bombers, might convert some of the extremists? Most of the girls in Afghanistan don't go to school at all, because they are scared or just not allowed to, why not give them this tool so they can at least try to learn themselves at home? You can't say this is not about politics.

It's a US project made by the good people at the US MIT, without US initiative this project might not exist yet. Sure thing, I wish India, China, Europe, Saudi Arabia, all join together and make sure every child on this planet get a fair chance at education now. It's politics that decide the priorities and where to put the money, tax who and sponsor what. The idea is sure enough we need to build a few million more/better schools, and bring Internet to all. But, even though those things have to happen, better food, better health and security, we might as well give the children a school in a box which a Laptop has the potential to be.

2 billion kids are waiting. US spends billions dollars every day on useless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why is it so unrealistic to have a vision where one actually puts money in educating the kids as soon as possible, before they grow old and miss their opportunity of getting inspiration to do big things in their future.