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Reokie
October 24th, 2010, 12:11 AM
I have seen in multiple threads the possibilities for distributing technology on the form of laptops across the world. I am wondering if the open source philosophy can help with that. Even having a OS like Ubuntu over proprietary windows programs and OS's can reduce the average PC by $100s. Add this to "netbooks" and you have a VERY cheap computing alternative.

K.Mandla
October 24th, 2010, 12:16 AM
Hence ...

http://laptop.org/en/laptop/index.shtml

Reokie
October 24th, 2010, 01:12 AM
Ah! Yes thats the project that I have heard about recently! I heard about it a while ago and wondered if linux could be applied to something like that too.

Verbeck
October 24th, 2010, 08:28 AM
Ah! Yes thats the project that I have heard about recently! I heard about it a while ago and wondered if linux could be applied to something like that too.
i'm confused.. it already has linux :|

Linux_junkie
October 24th, 2010, 12:08 PM
Hence ...

http://laptop.org/en/laptop/index.shtml

The laptop that has been featured on the site is cool, I want one!

lz1dsb
October 24th, 2010, 02:16 PM
I have seen in multiple threads the possibilities for distributing technology on the form of laptops across the world. I am wondering if the open source philosophy can help with that. Even having a OS like Ubuntu over proprietary windows programs and OS's can reduce the average PC by $100s. Add this to "netbooks" and you have a VERY cheap computing alternative.
I think that a lot of people in the developing countries are using pirated Windows copies as well. It's what the situation is in Eastern Europe. I also read that in India and China is the same...
Well of course there're a lot of Linux users, but people don't really count the price of Windows because they ususally use a pirated copy. It's the same with the applications...

Cheers,
Boyan