Fwd: OLPC Laptop - some suggestions for the software

["Thomas Müller"]

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Datum: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:46:24 +0100
An: nicholas at media.mit.edu
Betreff: OLPC Laptop - some suggestions

Hello Nicholas Negroponte,

OLPC is a great project. I want to suggest some software for the laptop.

1. Please stay with linux, as it is open source and free from licence money.

Then there are a few good open source applications:

- Firefox-Brwoser
- Thunderbird E-mail client
- Open Office.org
- Songbird mediaplayer at www.songbirdnest.com (based on mozialla, lookes like itunes)
- and: mediaplayer classic http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
- xvid-codec: http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.1.2-01112006.exe
- ghostscript-pdf (open source at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/)
- 

But I want to have you to look at two main things:

the first is a free, open source, instant messenger, which is serverless:

http://cspace.in

and second, there is a mesh network protocol to have all wireless laptops meshed together, then you do not need servers. CALLED: B.A.T.M.A.N. (search google in combination with OLSR or freifunk ) it is the followup of OLSR.org

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.
http://www.mail-archive.com/all@list.opennet-initiative.de/msg01180.html
http://wireless.subsignal.org/index.php?title=Batman-Test
http://www.freifunk-bno.de/content/view/67/28/
http://freifunk.net
http://b.a.t.m.a.n.freifunk.net/
www.olsr.org


third, there is a new p2p search engine, which will index all the web in a decentral way:

http://www.yacy.net/yacy/

(it need java, but you cannot preinstall java, if you have not the agreement of sun.com, so speak with them).

Fourth:
For a skype VOIP alternative see the open source client: http://www.openwengo.org/


So.. keep it free of windows, realplayer, google and skype.
there are good alternatives.

Open Source games for linux are here:
http://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/h2006/space/Open-Source-Spiele

If the laptop is financed by the government, you do not need google.
so please let the open source be installed as well in the image for the installer.cd.

Maybe you can forward this mail with open source software suggestions to the chief of software for the laptop, and maybe he can contact the BATMAN developer to add auto-ip-signement, then all laptops work like peers in gnutella style and can connect without a central server in a meshed network of wirkeless laptops and hoppping to the next wireless ISP.
Ask the freifunk.net people in Berlin/Germany to develop this for you till beginning of 2007.

Thanks a lot.
Kind regards tom


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