Re: [Hampshire] OLPC XO finally deployed

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Author: James Ashburner
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OLPC XO finally deployed
John Cooper wrote:
> After all the dirty tricks from M$ and Intel to derail the one laptop
> per child programme, Uruguay becomes the first country to supply a
> laptop to every child at primary school (362,000). This is with the
> Sugar interface and Fedora based Linux platform, not XP!!!
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309583.stm
>
> If any primary schools would like to try an XO, I have two for demo.
>
>

My local primary school may very well be interested, St Michael's
Juniors in Aldershot. They're looking to buy in a fairly significant
number of laptops.

James