> For those in the US the folk at OLPC will have another give-one:get-one program > this fall.. The XO is cute and yes nifty. A serious Linux USER will find it a bit light > on horsepower and memory but marvelous. Through amazon none the less and starting on Nov 17th. Details are at http://www.amazon.com/xo/ > As far as a teaching tool goes the software and teaching concepts can > be applied to any laptop not just the XO. The hardware enables the > software as much or more than the other way around. > > It has yum, > It has a window manager (matchbox) > It has a desktop (sugar) > It has bash > It has python > It has wireless networking Including mesh networking. > It has Ctl-Alt-F[123] alternate shell > It has an X server. > It has user accounts... > It has a web browser (firefox) > It has a Fedora kernel... > It has USB ports (three). > It has a mousepad > It has a keyboard.... > It has a LCD display with an advantage. + SDHC slot, webcam, audio in/out > Loading software is different... no DVD/CDROM. Not the only device though nowdays with all the Netbooks that don't have an optical drive > When all is said and done it runs Fedora.... > and this is a Fedora list. Peter -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
