[GNUz] Nice review of OLPC

[Timothy Musson]

I can't say I've been following news about "One Laptop Per Child" very
closely (I'm a bit skeptical about the whole thing), but this review by
a 12 year old makes it sound pretty neat:

  http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1206

Sounds like something I would've loved as a kid :^)

The OLPC is based on GNU/Linux, but rather than using a typically Linuxy
window manager or desktop environment it uses its own. Apparently most
of the desktop applications are written in Python, to encourage kids to
tinker and find out how things work. Just like we used to do with our
ZX81s, C=64s, etc.

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