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