Instalasi default hanya memerlukan kurang dari 2.5 GB. Memang handal!

In case you haven’t figure it out, the blue object is the USB ethernet adapter

A naughty attempt to install Powermanga on the XO. Half way there!

Safiyyah, 7 and new owner of the XO,  pWn1ng the box for fun and profit

I ‘won’  the OLPC XO at the recent Foss.MY 2008  just in time for my eldest son 8th birthday. The only problem was that it came without an adapter. So I finally had the time yesterday to get one of those made in China ‘Universal’ power adapter for notebooks, thanks to the OLPC wiki and some pictures at flickr.

Initially my son thought that the Xo was one of those kiddie laptops so he wasn’t that excited. Anyhoo, after booting it up and connecting the Xo to our wireless lan, he was convinced that this is a Linux box with a strange cute interface.

And thus we spent a couple of hours, going through some of the applications and figuring out how the desktop environment, Sugar, works. From the initial experience, it seems that I got to spend some time reading the official wiki. I can see already some good applications for learning programming  like Scratch and Pippy. Also there’s a browser for playing flash games reading wikipedia and sending emails. Sound and all the other thingies worked as expected.

Size-wise, the XO is suitable for kids. It is also quite durable or ‘dropable’. I got Jihad to do all the typing as the keyboard was a tad too small for my hands.The hardware specs might be a bit at the low end for doing multiple things at the same time, but sufficient for the educational activities intended for kids 8-12 years old.

Comparing OLPC XO vs Dell Latitude X1

I’ll post some more stuff on our adventure on the XO in the future. w00t.

Ripped off from desktoplinux website:

"Dell also is saying something else that’s equally important about the desktop world. It’s saying, for the first time in more than a decade, that standard x86 PC users have a choice. For the first time since OS/2 mattered, users have a choice again. No more are users stuck with Windows. No more are they forced to pay the Microsoft tax"

Life is my friend, after all, is about having choices and choosing the right ones.  You can quote me on that

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OLPC US$100 laptop or now known as XO laptop has a number of innovations built-in that easily beat Vista powered laptop. Just to mention a few that can raise eye-brows:

1) Dual-mode cheap low power LCD screen that rival Sony ereader (cost US$300) for ebook viewing
2) New security platform that beat Vista (cost  US$300) security called Bitfrost
3) Innovative multi-hopping mesh network based on 802.11s standard (first commercially available in the world)

One word to describe these features and more available at a very low price, WOW! (the exclamation being used in Vista advert)

Much of them are discussed  here and you can watch the related video.

There is a rumor saying that Microsoft is interested to try run Windows on the OLPC platform.  Now this is interesting, first they laughed at you, then they join you, and finally you win.

IMHO, this Linux based laptop is more than educational laptop.  It is a trojan horse to break Windows domination.  I’ll try to write a separate article later on about this issue.

It is no secret that I’m a BIG fan of OLPC.  It  is less than RM500 laptop running Linux.  Here are the screenshots of OLPC running Opera browser.
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