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Birmingham Agrees to Buy 15,000 XO Laptops

12/05/2007  
Relevance: 8.16
The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has agreed to purchase 15,000 of OLPC's XO laptops. The laptops will be given to children in grades one through eight. This will be the first major sale of XO laptops to a US school system.
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Linux on laptops? Oh, my! (video)

08/09/2007  
Relevance: 7.12
Some of the heaviest PR lead-up to this year's West Coast LinuxWorld Conference and Expo was about Linux on laptops, and specifically Novell's SUSE Linux on Lenovo laptops.
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Eight nations to test 2,500 OLPC Linux laptops

02/14/2007  
Relevance: 6.89
The One Laptop Per Child project will ship nearly 2,500 of its $150 laptops to eight nations this month, Reuters reported today. The experiment is a prelude to mass production of the kid-friendly, lime-green-and-white laptops scheduled to begin in July, when 5 million will be built.
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Linux on laptops

09/10/2006  
Relevance: 6.76
Although most modern laptops nowadays tend to scare people off with an ugly “Designed for Windows XP” mark, it does not mean that alternative operating systems, like GNU/Linux cannot be installed and function equally well. In this article I would like to describe a few common issues with Linux on laptops and maybe bust a few myths about using GNU/Linux on mobile computers.
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Colombia Signs Up for Windows XO Laptops

11/19/2008  
Relevance: 6.51
To great fanfare, Microsoft has announced that it is deploying XO laptops in Quetame and Chia, Colombia, with the Windows XP operations system, what I like to call"Windows XO", thereby claiming that Colombia signs up for OLPC laptops with Windows. This bragging certainly has pissed off Greg Dek, a Red Hat Community Architect working on OLPC. Greg declares that Microsoft bought 10,000 XO laptops in May and can do with them whatever they want, including trumpeted up pilots of Windows XO, and that OLPC builds with Linux and Sugar, and always will.
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Securing Linux laptops

01/08/2008  
Relevance: 6.39
While you can find dozens of products to secure Windows laptops, security products for Linux laptops are scarcer -- but they do exist. We found a range of products and fixes ranging from security patches for the operating system to encryption to the equivalent of computer bicycle locks which can help keep your Linux laptop or notebook safe.
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The mini-laptops of summer

06/15/2008  
Relevance: 6.39
A new breed of extremely small and light (2 pounds or so) laptop has emerged just in time for summer travel. Called mobile Internet devices (MIDs), and also known as mini-laptops, mini-notebooks, or mini-notes, these lightweight laptops are practically naked, stripped of all extraneous features. And starting at around US$400, they're far cheaper than other mobile PCs.
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The Defining Moment for Linux Laptops

02/20/2008  
Relevance: 6.25
A decade from now, when high-tech historians retrace the history of Linux, they will identify February 2008 as a defining moment. It will be known as the month when Linux laptops made the leap from open source geeks to the consumer masses.Here's why, according to The VAR Guy.
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Amazon to Sell OLPC XO Laptops With the Get One, Give One Arrangement

11/13/2008  
Relevance: 6.13
Amazon will have XO laptops for sale on Monday, November 17th. The XO laptops at Amazon are sold in the same manner as they were initially at the OLPC site, with a $400 donation securing a laptop for the customer, and a laptop for a child in a developing country. This donation (or at least the portion used to purchase the laptop for the child) is tax deductible.
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LinuxCertified Announces Ubuntu Laptops Optimized for Engineering and Scientific use

09/29/2007  
Relevance: 6.08
LC2000 Series Ubuntu Linux Laptops
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