On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
> Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
>
> I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for
> secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version
> of open office running on that machine.
>
> Is the XO GUI Python based??
> Could Open Office run on it??
> DSL uses a lightweight GUI. Could that run on an OX and could it
> support OpenOffice??
>
> I guess the question I'm asking is, which is more possible:
> 1. Getting Open Office to run on the existing XO OS & GUI or
> 2. Could another GUI and apps be built on the XO kernel??
>
> Does any of this make sense or is this a pipe dream?
You can buy the Asus EEE PC for $299, and it already comes with
OpenOffice.org.
It isn't as cool--no portable charger, no sunlight mode, and so forth, but
it's closer to what you want.
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