Official OLPC OS is bootstrapped with Debian!?

Courtesy Debian-News.net  Mon, 10/13/2008 - 14:00

I was just looking through the contents of the olpcrd.img file on my XO build update.1 708, and it seems that the initrd is a minature installation of Debian.


 

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