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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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.

One more hw update:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=330150&source=rss_topic12

Regards,

Tomeu