Eee and Microsoft

Eee and Microsoft

Posted May 16, 2008 22:01 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: OLPC and Microsoft by bronson
Parent article: OLPC and Microsoft

Just get an Eee. It's cheaper (than $400), has good enough hardware, and the software is great: fast, excellent power management, a minimalistic and very easy to use interface, and hardly any upgrades. You can replace the default Xandros desktop with any other Linux; under Debian power management still works perfectly.

It doesn't have mesh networking, but let's face it: who needs that? As for the outdoors-readable screen, Linus himself said it best:

So stop worrying about those dangerous ultraviolet rays, and instead get your Vitamin D in the form God (and the pharmaceutical industry) intended: small easily swallowed pills. Beaches are overrated anyway, the sand gets into the laptop fan and soon it won't work.

To ease your conscience you may just buy the cheapest $300 model, and donate the extra $100 to a charity. It will probably help the poor kids more this way.

As an aside: does anyone know if the default Debian-based Xandros is generating faulty crypto keys? Since the system hardly sees any upgrades, it might be dangerous.

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