The OLPC and BIOS upgrades
The OLPC and BIOS upgrades
Posted Aug 31, 2006 16:25 UTC (Thu) by leoc (guest, #39773)In reply to: The OLPC and BIOS upgrades by hamjudo
Parent article: The OLPC and BIOS upgrades
I agree 100%. As we see with other operating systems, no amount of money thrown at the problem is going to stop end users from doing bad things, more so when you are talking about people who have very little computer experience. The system should probably have some read-only-hardware method to restore the machine to the way it was when it was first turned on.
Posted Sep 11, 2006 22:22 UTC (Mon)
by jg (guest, #17537)
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Which is why we have to protect the BIOS rom so carefully: it is whatThe OLPC and BIOS upgrades
will allow someone to get a fresh copy of the system bits reinstalled onto
NAND flash.