[OLPC-Philippines] One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality

[Jerome Gotangco]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jerome Gotangco<jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:53 PM, James Shields<james at marasbaras.com> wrote:
>> Given that it sounds like Negroponte is going to have an XO-2 for us all,
>> I'm not sure what to suggest in the short term.  Does anyone have specs?
>
> First, we'll have a refresh of the original XO with a speed bump
> (CPU/Memory) as well as a storage bump (Flash storage) what will make
> things more efficient in the current design before the XO-2. It will
> also run Fedora 11 booting to Sugar with an option to boot to full
> Gnome desktop which makes the machine more usable for real world use
> (in case the kid using Sugar eventually outgrows the environment).
>
> jerome
>

By the way, just to add, the recently released Fedora 11 has Sugar
making any machine running Fedora 11 become learning machines using
the Sugar environment.

jerome