A project to provide people in developing countries with computers could
deliver its first systems in July.
The One Laptop Per Child initiative
wants to put notebook computers, costing less than $100 (£55) each, into the
hands of deprived children around the world.
The notebook, known as an XO machine, uses a 366MHz processor developed by
AMD. It has no hard disk, using 512MB of flash memory for long-term storage, as
well as two USB ports for external devices.
It runs Linux, the free open-source operating system, rather than the
paid-for Microsoft Windows. However, the computer will use a newly designed
interface, called
Sugar,
which is said to be substantially different from the normal Linux look, and
which has been developed especially for the project.
One Laptop Per Child is being masterminded by
Nicholas
Negroponte, the former academic from American university MIT, where he
founded the pioneering
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