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On Amazon $399 will get you an OLPC just like the ones being used to help educate kids in impoverished nations.

The folks over at One Laptop Per Child News have information on this year's edition of the Give One Get One program.

For $399, one can get an XO for some lucky child as well as donate one to a child in the developing world.

This year, Amazon is handling the fulfillment which will hopefully alleviate many of the problems seen last year.

Interested people should visit Amazon's XO site.

LiveJournal: "2. The reason these 10,000 systems had to be customized? Simple: Windows can't even boot on open firmware.

Can't even boot! Which means that the other 990,000 XO (or so) systems in the wild CANNOT EVEN RUN WINDOWS with the firmware installed on them."

AFTER BEING PLEASANTLY surprised by the generosity of US citizens in OLPC's Give One Get One kiddie laptop scheme, the firm has finally decided to test the generosity of Europeans too.

Christoph Derndorfer writes "Last year OLPC's XO-laptop was among the hottest Christmas gadgets thanks to the organization's G1G1 program, where you could donate $399 to give one XO-laptop to a child in the ...

Microsoft recently signed a deal to deliver a number of XOs to Colombia, all running Windows. While this one deployment has grabbed a lot of attention, the reality of the situation is extremely different.

Boston Review: "But just as I was switching to an OLPC, the project backed away from its commitment to freedom and allowed the machine to become a platform for running Windows, a non-free operating system."

October 21, 2008 - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago Share Comments The OLPC developers announced today a new release of their XO Software, a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the XO laptop.

OLPC News: "Recently Anne Gentle and I organised the 3rd FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint, which was the first for OLPC and Sugar.

We had recently been approached by David Farning from Sugar Labs to host the Sugar documentation and there followed a frenzy of discussion on multiple mailing-lists about who would manage, write, and host the documentation for both OLPC and Sugar."