[OLPC India] Windows on OLPC XO 1.5

[Satish Jha]

You are right and I am sorry I misunderstood your statement to be a
philosophical one. 

As I see it, the request to me has come from
someone who is driven to make it happen and has come up against a wall
where they believe a computer is a computer only if it uses windows and
is willing to justify it on that basis if they can demonstrate OLPC XO
uses Windows XP. That is a wall not easy to scale by education. 

There
will be all sorts of people and they know what they know and they have
so many people telling them what they like to hear. So the easiest bit
will be to just port XP on XO 1.5 and demo and be done with it. If
anyone can send an XP loaded SD card that works on XO, a challenge is
taken care of rather than take a philosophical route and go for a 100
year war. India is where it is because the way it thinks. I know how I
fought my little battles to help PCs come in to the government offices
and how I insisted that the daily newspaper I founded for a large
national newspaper house be composed on screen in 1983. But we cannot
solve al the problems of the universe before we get where we are headed.


It will be a great help if anyone can help send these guys an SD card
loaded with XP for XO or can guide towards a workaround. 

Regards 

On
30-09-2012, Walter Bender wrote: 

> At its heart, this is a technical
issue. It is not obvious that
> Windows 8 can run on the XO hardware.
And if it is possible, it will
> require a significant investment to do
the port. So asking for a
> rationale for making this investment is not
a matter of Puratism, it
> is a mater of pragmatism.
> 
> regards.
> 
>
-walter
> 
> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org [1]



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