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Today i come to know that the “One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)” project and Microsoft Corp. are working together for developing a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries
—–OLPC said in an interview Tuesday
Once i get an opportunity to see these laptops and it was in freed.in .It was “shyamindu das gupta” with his OLPC XO laptop.
OLPC also support WiFi Mesh (currently with a iphone of a guy in freed.in)

It’s a brand new development for the XO laptops, as the low-cost notebooks are known, and came about because of Microsoft’s friendlier attitude toward open-source software.

Microsoft has embraced the open-source community over the past few years in a very different way than before.
The OLPC laptop currently runs a Fedora-based Linux operating system, and Microsoft has offered a version of Windows XP for the laptop project. There had been speculation that OLPC would simply offer two separate laptop PCs, but a dual-boot system could remove the need to offer two separate laptops. Such a device could also reduce the need to have competing low-cost laptops — running Linux or Windows — in the marketplace. Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc. has already launched an ultralow cost laptop PC capable of running Windows XP, and executives at the company have touted XP compatibility as an advantage over the XO.
OLPC is also working with Microsoft and possibly the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on combining OLPC laptops with some of the educational programs run by Microsoft in developing countries.

 

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