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MIT's $100 laptop to run Redhat
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| November 25 2005
| Staff Writer
Posted on 11/26/2005 8:56:44 PM PST by N3WBI3
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Mistake (if they are using vanilla RedHat), they should use DSL (Damn Small Linux) or a lightweight BSD. for these boxes. Or they could make the kids 1337 and give them WHAX.
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posted on
11/26/2005 8:56:44 PM PST
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N3WBI3
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posted on
11/26/2005 8:57:27 PM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: N3WBI3
Mistake (if they are using vanilla RedHat) For a laptop to cost only $100, I'd buy several. I couldn't care less if it used Vanilla or even Windows Millenium, I'd still get it. Well, okay, maybe not with Millenium, but pretty much anything else.
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posted on
11/26/2005 9:01:22 PM PST
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
To: N3WBI3
Desktop Linux is a cruel thing to inflict on a child. But it least it will have better security than Windows.
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posted on
11/26/2005 9:03:38 PM PST
by
HAL9000
(Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
To: N3WBI3
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posted on
11/26/2005 9:49:18 PM PST
by
dennisw
(You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
To: N3WBI3
"Recipients of the laptops will most likely include Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, the State of Massachusetts in the US, Cambodia, Costa Rica and hosts of the last WSIS forum, Tunisia. "
--I would like to know what makes Messachusettes so special to get these laptops, (Aside from the obvious point that their a bunch of liberal commies-), i know alot of parents that could use them for their kids to learn in the (tm)Peoples republik of california. All kids should be able to have access to them.
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:02:29 PM PST
by
1FASTGLOCK45
(FreeRepublic: More fun than watching Dem'Rats drown like Turkeys in the rain! ! !)
To: N3WBI3
To: 1FASTGLOCK45
Messachusettes so special to get these laptops I thought that also... My guess would be because this is a program at MIT..
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posted on
11/26/2005 10:04:02 PM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: N3WBI3
Recipients of the laptops will most likely include Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, the State of Massachusetts in the US, Cambodia, Costa Rica and hosts of the last WSIS forum, Tunisia. Ah. Banana Republics, in other words.
To: HAL9000
Desktop Linux is a cruel thing to inflict on a child I cut my teeth on CP/M then on the interfaces of those dinky 80s home computers. Desktop Linux would be a Sunday walk in the park :)
For basic use, RedHat's unified desktop is no more difficult than Windows. I think it less so in many respects.
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posted on
11/27/2005 3:25:57 AM PST
by
ExDemSince92
(/* You are not expected to understand this */)
To: N3WBI3
1GB Flash Ram and they still come in under $100? The last time I looked, 1GB was in the $80 range by itself.
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posted on
11/27/2005 3:28:53 AM PST
by
Bernard
(You can either deal with your situation or be a liberal about it.)
To: 1FASTGLOCK45
--I would like to know what makes Messachusettes so special to get these laptopsI wonder too.
I never thought of them as a third world country. Politically, maybe. But, not financially.
If the doodads have networking of any variety, I'd love to get my hands on a few. They'd make ideal things to use on the road for email and whatnot. At least you wouldn't consider hari-kari if you accidentally left one behind at a hotel.
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posted on
11/27/2005 3:31:41 AM PST
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ExDemSince92
(/* You are not expected to understand this */)
To: ExDemSince92
Unless you have anything on it you would not want to fall into your competitor's hands.
At least you wouldn't consider hari-kari if you accidentally left one behind at a hotel.
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posted on
11/27/2005 6:40:38 AM PST
by
Salo
(He hath touched me with his noodly appendage. Ramen.)
To: ExDemSince92
If the doodads have networking of any variety, I'd love to get my hands on a few. They do have wireless networking built in and (I have read) can easily be setup to network with eachother to from an intranet if not intrenet is available..
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posted on
11/27/2005 7:38:30 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: N3WBI3
They do have wireless networking built in and (I have read) can easily be setup to network with eachother to from an intranet if not intrenet is available.. MIT is right up the road from me. Howsabout I go case the joint then you and I can pull off a little laptop 'panty raid' one night?
We can give them away to Freepers at Condi's Inaugural Ball in 2009. =;^)
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posted on
11/27/2005 7:57:24 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸Ooooh...I think I over-medicated¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
If it was not stealing I would say go for it... I am disappointed they will not sell these, I would pay 125$ and they could use the extra money to put towards other laptops but then they would be a functioning nonprofit corporation and not another out of place government program
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posted on
11/27/2005 8:02:09 AM PST
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Salo
Unless you have anything on it you would not want to fall into your competitor's hands.We had a car broken into in Kansas City. An X-Cube was stolen. Miraculously, the KC police recovered it along with a lot of other things stolen from vehicles that night as the Nobel Lauriate that stole the stuff had it in the trunk of a stolen car he was tooling around in.
Turns out Linux is a pretty good thing to have on a computer. The guy never got in and we got it back with some rap DVD (CD-ROM drive) in it which of course he couldn't play (even if it were a DVD drive).
As for competitors, I keep nothing sensitive with me on the road. I chat with my wife via IRC, check personal email and things of that nature.
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posted on
11/27/2005 11:43:29 AM PST
by
ExDemSince92
(/* You are not expected to understand this */)
To: N3WBI3
I am disappointed they will not sell these You know that some of the Pols or people at MIT have kids who will wind up with one.
Or am I being too cynical? Naaahhh.
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posted on
11/27/2005 1:01:32 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸Ooooh...I think I over-medicated¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸)
To: N3WBI3
Right 128 mb ram is too low for red hat these days. And not just RH. Suse, Fedora, Mandriva, etc. Even the small-bore Vector SOHO finds it tight. They must be talking a custom distro build based off fedora, since fedora is a branch from RH.
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posted on
11/27/2005 1:07:15 PM PST
by
bvw
To: N3WBI3
Actually, just have 'em run Slax. With the MySlax Creator, it's possible to customize Slax enough to suit most basic needs.
Though Whax isn't a bad choice either, and from what I read, it's just as customizable.
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posted on
11/29/2005 8:13:15 PM PST
by
rzeznikj at stout
(Liberalism: The world's singular leading cause of truth decay...)
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