It's a shame the work of the OLPC kernel developers / volunteers who made the Xtra Ordinary distro possible don't get any credit. The "debxo" distribution http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DebXO has been going for a long time and has done all the hard work (i.e., XO-1-specific work) of getting debian to work on the XO-1.
Really? I wince at not having to type any uppercase to use pathnames which clearly contain uppercase characters. Madness!
I had horrible problems trying to get inherit to work in IE before I googled it and found out that it was impossible. This and http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2006/08/10/694584.aspx have left me in rather an unbalanced position when it comes to IE.
the goal should not be 'unconfigurable' but 'no configuration needed 90% of the time, and configurable the remaining 10% of the time'.
Another example of "unconfigurable" is file rename behavior in Nautilus. Click-to-rename behavior (like in Windows) was implemented once, but was later removed completely rather than making it a configuration option.
Are you trolling?
> In a few years if not now there will be greater penetration of actual sub 100 laptops instead of the OLPC initiative.
Penetration where? In the developed world? Sure! But 750,000 laptops (or so) shipped in two years is pretty good...or are you confusing OLPC with a consumer laptop vendor?
> cell phones['s hardware] is better than OLPC
It's not, and that's a pretty ridiculous statement. Oh wait, there's more:
> Economy of scale is still not as cheap as scavenging
You mean, paying a non-zero amount of money is more expensive than paying nothing? Please step out from your modest cloak of anonymity so I can send you money for more unique insights like this.
> OLPC is about as sophisticated as a speak and spell
This is false, and...
> [rest of sentence]
"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults." -- Peter De Vries
