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Posted Mar 20, 2008 0:40 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Changes at OLPC by dhess
Parent article: Changes at OLPC
Probably about their recent work to make it able to dual-boot MS Windows unmodified.
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Posted Mar 20, 2008 1:44 UTC (Thu) by quozl (subscriber, #18798) [Link]
I feel I'm too close to the project to be able to comment independently ... but the comment about Microsoft Windows at least reminds me that Linux has been used for the XO as initial bring-up and design validation. Which seems to happen more and more these days. On the other hand, the initial bring-up of hardware was often Mitch Bradley and the FORTH based OpenFirmware. I wasn't there, but I was eagerly listening on IRC.
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Posted Mar 20, 2008 19:11 UTC (Thu) by jchrist (guest, #14782) [Link]
Possible, but http://radian.org/notebook/paradox-of-choice would seem to argue against that. I'm really curious, too, b/c my XO arrived yesterday.