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A laptop to change the world (ZDNet)
ZDNet has run a look at the One Laptop Per Child project by Jeremy Allison. "But the real genius in the OLPC laptop is in the software. The OLPC is a completely open hardware system. There are no closed proprietary pieces to make support difficult. The software is the same, and it drives much of the needed sophistication in making the limited hardware perform acceptably. This is a system designed for people to learn from."
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A laptop to change the world (ZDNet) Posted Mar 8, 2007 2:13 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Good article.
But does this mean that they no longer plan to use binary drivers?
Last time I heard about this issue, binary drivers were being used:
Binary drivers Posted Mar 8, 2007 2:43 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] There are no binary-only drivers in the OLPC system; that's nothing new. Even the system BIOS is open. The only remaining binary-only component that I know of is the firmware for the wireless adapter.
Binary drivers Posted Mar 8, 2007 19:33 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link] And they wanted to replace that with an open source version too. No idea how far they are with that though.
Binary drivers Posted Mar 9, 2007 1:08 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Hmm. Thanks for the clarifications.
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