| OLPC offers mass adoption of desktop Linux |
Jun. 07, 2006
 Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child project, told the audience on the final day of Red Hat's annual user summit in Nashville, Tenn., June 5, that his project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it now is on the server, Silicon.com reports.
Negroponte reportedly said the OLPC project will lead to mass adoption of the operating system -- but only if the operating system and applications on it are efficient and usable enough. And, Negroponte is convinced that the Linux distribution and the application packages the project chooses will perform more than adequately, according to Silicon.com story.
As of June 6, however, the project has yet to select the Linux brand and an app package.
In other OLPC news, that pie-in-the-sky $100 price tag apparently is not quite cast in concrete. Negroponte was quoted by CIO Today as saying that the laptop would most likely cost around $135 to $140 at launch. However, with volume, this price could drop to $100 in 2008 and possibly to $50 by 2010, Negroponte reportedly said.
Read the Silicon.com story here, and the CIO-Today story here.
For more details on the OLPC, refer to our prior coverage in the related stories, below.
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