$100 Laptop
Posted on Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 7:46 am under Mac Geekery.Tags: laptop
One Laptop per Child has allegedly declined offers from Apple and Microsoft in favor of running open source software on their laptops. However, judging from a photo of one of the $100 laptops, the OS has strong similarities to Mac OS X. I personally don’t think it’s OS X. The icon sizes don’t have the uniformity of the Mac, but it sure looks similar from a distance. Another interesting thing happening is the possibility of selling these machines in the consumer market. hum….
Link: laptop.org
May 25th, 2006 at 10:17 am
this wiki shows a screenshot with it running the latest fedora distribution:
http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/Main_Page
i have a laptop running it at home and it looks like OS X in some ways.
May 25th, 2006 at 11:38 am
It’s Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/), the open-source version of Red Hat Linux. The graphical environment is GNOME.
May 28th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Apple offered OS X for this project but they declained the offer. Obviously because OS X is bit too heavy and OpenSource suits this project better in financial view.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:24 pm
redhat enterprise and fedora are _BOTH_ totally opensource edition of linux by Redhat
redhat enterprise is commercially sold WITH professional support and services. (expensive).
fedora is given without services at all, only the community manage it and a limited works by redhat engineers for 6 month by version of fedora.