On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:47:17 -0500, Vernon Wormer wrote:

> Published: Sunday, February 24, 2008
> Laptops for children are buggy
>
> The OLPC runs on the Linux operating system and a chip made by Intel rival
> Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The software was complicated and buggy. For
> weeks neither my brilliant niece, nor her well educated parents, could
> figure out how to get it to connect online.
>
> They eventually had to reconfigure and upgrade the operating system, a
> complex process certainly not doable by a computer rookie. Pity the child in
> a remote Cambodian village trying to figure out this instruction from the
> OLPC Web site: "At your root prompt, type: olpc-update (build-no) where
> (build-no) is the name of the build you would like."
>
> Once upgraded, the OLPC has been remarkably slow, often requiring repeated
> attempts to log in and balking at the notion of opening more than a few
> programs at a time.
>
> http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/...67/-1/business

What do you expect?

When a company like Lenovo, the 3rd largest computer manufacturer in the
world can't get Linux to work on high end equipment like their Thinkpads,
what chance does a disorganized clusterfsck of Linux do gooders have?

http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Re...-of-Questions/

"Seeing that XEN was preinstalled got our interest. What a great
idea¡Xdeliver the system with virtualization already in place. Our amazement
at such an insightful idea quickly waned once we tried to use the XEN boot
option and were rewarded with an Error 15: File Not Found. We tried to
resolve the problem using instructions from SUSE, a control panel installer
and a few other tricks, but we came up empty."

"We did not like the sound of that ¡§limitations¡¨ element. After all, isn¡¦t
Linux supposed to be about overcoming limitations?

The first part of the document covered ¡§features not supported.¡¨ Some of
those features are:

* ThinkVantage Active Protection System.
* ThinkVantage Access Connections for SUSE Linux
* ThinkPad Configuration for SUSE Linux
* ThinkPad Power Manager for SUSE Linux
* Wireless WAN Adapter
* ThinkVantage Button
* (Intel Graphics System) DVI Output

From our point of view, Lenovo was not off to a good start"


I'm starting to think that the entire OLPC project was nothing more than a
huge scam that has made some people a lot of money and sadly at the expense
of the kids.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
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