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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:31, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

Looks pretty sweet. We now need more rugged machines with screens like
the one on the XO.

Thanks,

Tomeu