"a really wacky idea" comes to life

Good article in today's NY Times about the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

"Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian dream to working prototype as "a really wacky idea.""

Check it out!

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BTW, you don't need the OLPC laptop to check out one of the cool applications that will be shipped with it. eToys, based on Squeak, can be downloaded and executed on your Fedora installation. See the eToys page on the OLPC Wiki.

The Squeak VM and Etoys are packaged as RPMs. Easiest way to get them:

wget http://etoys.laptop.org/olpc-etoys.repo
cp olpc-etoys.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
yum install etoys

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Nice introduction to Squeak
Doom on the OLPC hmmm... probablly will not ship with unit :-)

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