OLPC partners with Amazon, ITU

Courtesy LinuxDevices.com  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 14:16

Amazon will sell One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)'s Linux-compatible XO notebook starting in November, says a news story.

The story also says OLPC is partnering with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to help distribute the notebooks, and the next-generation XO-2 will ship in 1Q 2010.


 

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