First Impressions on the OLPC XO Laptop
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Last night Dennis Gilmore, Build Engineer for OLPC, spoke at Bradley University. Since I live 3 blocks from Bradley and have been following OLPC off and on since the beginning, I couldn’t pass this up (even though I was the token old guy in a classroom mostly full of college undergrads).
Dennis had brought 3 XOs with him for the students to play with. He gave a good introductory presentation on OLPC, XO, and Sugar. Not much new for anyone who has been following the project, but I did learn that the XO runs each activity’s process in a different uid/gid. The students asked lots of good questions and were obviously excited about OLPC.
Read on if you care to hear my personal experience with an XO… 
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