"The $100 laptop designed by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association, previewed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference in Tunisia last week, will be using a Redhat Linux variant as its operating system." [via] Link. The article also mentions there might be $200 versions for the general public to purchase.
MIT's $100 laptop to run Redhat
"The $100 laptop designed by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association, previewed at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference in Tunisia last week, will be using a Redhat Linux variant as its operating system." [via] Link. The article also mentions there might be $200 versions for the general public to purchase.
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This laptop is absolutely amazing, I would love to get my hands on one.
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No seriously, i want one of these.
I'm in the market for a small, not-powerful, CHEAP laptop.
I'd buy one for 150-200
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