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Originally Posted by Sgt.Stubby
What's exotic? The FOSS linux platform with Gnome desktop certainly is not exotic. If you mean the dual-mode display, indeed that's exotic. The exotic display coupled with non-exotic FOSS is what makes the thing so appealing.
BTW, all other devices that use a pixelqi screen are COTS proprietary using closed-source walled garden software.
It's still actively maintained as we speak. If you mean the hardware is 2013, dual core ARMv7 should be sufficient for the OP, no? This is the diagram http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch#Block_Diagram
That's the only hurdle. But the OP is a developer, so it's feasible for him to get one. The orgs selling them are loose with procurement.. you need not be a developer for the OLPC project to get one. |
I can't speak for Harry, but I would consider it "exotic" because, from reading the faqs on the website, it isn't possible to get one of these at all anymore.
http://one.laptop.org/about/faq
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How will these be distributed?
The laptops are generally sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child; using this model, we began deployments around the world in 2007. An additional allocation of machines was used to seed the developer community, to enable a broader community of participation, and roughly 80,000 laptops were donated to countries around the world through grassroots donation efforts. As of 2011, over 2 million laptops have been distributed under this model.
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From reading that, it appears that any allocation of machines for the dev community has been used up. Do you have a source that says otherwise?
Shari