Fwd: OLPC Laptop - some suggestions for the software

["Thomas Müller"]

Hi ivan
thanks for the replay.
I read, that a multimediacard slot is in the laptop to run windows on it...
Thouht that a standard product get the low price and not a diversity strategy, each country an indovidual laptop. so linux is free.
Free means free from money.
366 MHZ ? then windows woun´t run anyway. Change the processor to 500 MhZ at least! Then we can take mozilla and OOO suites on linux.
have you a documentation how the mesh is working?
What do you think of the serverless instant messenger Cspace.in ?
Which is really good i think.

kind regards


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Datum: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:34:31 +0100
Von: "Ivan Krsti�" <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
An: "Thomas Müller" <thomasasta at gmx.net>
Betreff: Re: Fwd: OLPC Laptop - some suggestions for the software

> Thomas Müller wrote:
> > 1. Please stay with linux, as it is open source and free from licence
> > money.
> 
> OLPC is providing a fully free and open Linux-based software stack on
> the laptops. There hasn't yet been a question, nor is there one now,
> about this changing. But our philosophy at OLPC is freedom, and freedom
> means that the participating countries can choose which OS and software
> they wish to run, even if those choices are proprietary and closed.
> 
> Henry Ford is reputed to have said that customers are free to have their
> Ford Model T painted any color they wish, so long as that color is
> black. We're pointedly staying away from such definitions of freedom.
> 
> > - Firefox-Brwoser - Thunderbird E-mail client - Open Office.org -
> 
> I'd suggest you don't try to run OO.o on a 366MHz machine, unless you're
> into the whole masochism thing :)
> 
> > 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
> 
> This piece of software was already brought up here, and I explained why
> it can't be used. Our mesh routing happens in hardware, so this and
> similar solutions aren't an option.
> 
> > third, there is a new p2p search engine, which will index all the web
> > in a decentral way:
> 
> Decentralized web indexing is not of particular interest to us at this
> time.
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D

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