[Sugar-devel] Gdium.Com is launching the One Laptop Per Hacker program.

[Morgan Collett]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:20, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:35,  <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
>> Donating laptops to worthy developer/developer projects. Might be of
>> interest to the OLPC/Sugar crowd.
>> http://www.gdium.com/group/58/home
>>
>> Machine has resonable specs:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdium
>
> Yeah, I expect many cheap machines to appear during 2009 with MIPS and
> ARM based processors. Mandriva is already running on the first models
> that appeared (including Gdium and Mobilis).
>
> Bernie ported Sugar to the Beagleboard, which has hardware similar to
> the Mobilis (OMAPx by TI) and Aleksey is already working on putting
> Sugar in the next release of Mandriva.
>
> So I trust Sugar is going to be very well supported on that category
> of machines ;)

My apologies if I've posted this link already :)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/pegatron-and-freescale-team-for-low-power-ultra-cheap-netbooks/

"Freescale is working with Ubuntu to prep an ARM-Linux distro, which
will hit in May"

Ubuntu's ARM buildroot's getting in good shape, so we should gain an
ARM port automagically...

Regards
Morgan