[SATLUG] XO Laptop available for general purchase. ..

[Thomas Cameron]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:00 -0500, pixelnate wrote:
> Sean Carolan wrote:
> > Apparently sales of the "$100 laptop" (that really costs $188) are not
> > doing so well, [...]
> 
> Seriously, who wants to run Red Hat, even kids in third world countries? 
> Just kidding. Not trying to start a flame war. [Ubuntu, Ubuntu, 
> Ubuntu...]  ;^)

The XO does not run Red Hat Linux.  At least not in the sense that you'd
expect.  It uses Linux under the hood, but the Sugar interface is not
like any Linux desktop you've probably ever used.

Have a look at:

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

For more details.

-- 
Thomas