[OLPC-SF] Nicholas gives an Intervew

[Edward Cherlin]

And several of us joined the discussion.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 21:36, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... and OLPC News already responded.
>
> http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/negroponte_xo-175_goes_arm_xo-2_is_cancelled.html
>
> Grant
>
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fascinating tidbit from Linux Weekly News today about an Interview
>> with Nicholas Negroponte.
>>
>> Grant Bowman
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
>>
>>
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>> http://lwn.net/Articles/360142/
>> Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled (OLPC News)
>> [Announcements] Posted Nov 3, 2009 15:19 UTC (Tue) by jake
>>
>> OLPC News has a report[1] about plans for the next revisions of the XO
>> hardware from an interview with Nicholas Negroponte[2] at Xconomy. One
>> of the changes is that the XO-2 has been canceled, with an ARM-based
>> XO-1.75 planned, and an XO-3 scheduled for 2012. "I've been following
>> the ongoing x86 vs. ARM race quite closely and it's my understanding
>> that they're now closely matched when it comes to the all-important
>> price / performance / power-consumption metrics. What I however cannot
>> estimate is how much engineering by OLPC, Sugar Labs and Fedora it takes
>> to make the current software run, and run well, on an ARM platform. It
>> also remains to be seen when OLPC plans to release the XO-1.75 but I'd
>> be very surprised if it happened within the next 12 months."
>>
>>  [1] http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/negroponte_xo-175_goes_arm_xo-2_is_cancelled.html
>>  [2] http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/11/02/negroponte-outlines-the-future-of-olpc-hints-at-paperlike-design-for-third-generation-laptop/
>>
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