[Discussioni] L'Italia si impegna a donare 50, 000 laptop OLPC per l'Etiopia

[Lucia Mazzoni]

Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
> 2007/11/4, Andrea Russo <rastandy a inventati.org>:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.laptop.olpc.announce/8
>>
>> "1. Reggio Emilia: Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi reconfirmed his
>> commitment of 50,000 laptops for Ethiopia while at a town meeting of
>> over 600 people where Nicholas presented OLPC. The importance of the
>> funding is its exemplary nature—it is model for other European
>> countries and the EU itself to follow. The clarity with which both the
>> press and the audience understood children as our mission, versus a
>> market, was refreshing."
> 
> Sono basati su linux?
> 

genericamente sapevo di si, guardandoci ho trovato questo:

http://olpc.com/quick-facts.html

The software of the OLPC is open source, the operating system is Fedora 
Core, the graphical user interface is called Sugar. A special version of 
Firefox is used as web browser, the word processor is Abiword. E-Mail is 
sent and received through GMail. LinuxBIOS is stored on an 1 MB flash ROM.


ciao
Lucia