Dual-boot ‘$100 laptop’ to run XP and Linux, What for? 6
Remember OLPC project?, project has a new version of The One Laptop Per Child Project’s (OLPC’s) XO laptop will run both Linux and Windows. Microsoft Operating System that run on OLPC is low cost student version of windows XP. Then for Linux will using the traditional Linux-based Sugar operating system.
OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte has referred in the past to a dual-boot XO model, but this is the first official announcement of such a system. The XO was developed by OLPC for children in developing countries, and Negroponte hopes to eventually make it available for $100. The availability of Windows on the system will give customers more choice in operating systems and let them use Windows-based educational software and tools, the parties said. Customers and partners worldwide have asked for Windows on the XO, they said.
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