Ask HN: One Child One Laptop

Posted by thefreeman on Monday November 19, 2012 @12:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

http://one.laptop.org/about/faq (linking to faq because the homepage is a pretty obnoxious full page splash)

I love the idea of getting laptops to kids in third world countries. But I am not sure about their custom OS, and I am having a hard time finding anything very specific about what they are able to "learn". I want to make sure I am not just falling for some sales pitch. Thoughts?

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Re:Ask HN: One Child One Laptop by dilithiumH3 on Monday November 19, 2012 @12:11AM (#4803002)

Last I heard, it was a re-skinned and simplified Ubuntu based os. This might have changed given the rise of android based os flavors in the market.

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Re:Ask HN: One Child One Laptop by thefreeman on Monday November 19, 2012 @12:24AM (#4803036)

Any idea how 'simplified' it is? ie. Can they browse the internet? Could they run a python script?

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Re:Ask HN: One Child One Laptop by byoung2 on Monday November 19, 2012 @01:00AM (#4803146)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_manual

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