[OLPC-SF] Register article

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Grant Bowman
<grantbow at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Thanks Lyz for retweeting. They sound confused!OLPCs run Fedora, not Ubuntu.
>
> RT @theregister: 125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students'' laps:
> Education booster or vote-buyer?. As the One Laptop Per Chi.
> http://t.co/j69XSezq
>
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The laptops in question are not OLPC laptops. These are Ubuntu-based
laptops being distributed to college students by the Punjab government
in Pakistan. I think the article was trying to draw parallels between
the OLPC project and this new gig.

cheers,
Sameer
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