[ge-talk] Haikun on OLPC - Laptop

[Ari Haviv]

I'm not exactly convinced that kids are better off with computers.
Computers tend to be mostly a distraction from what's important-like
learning to read and do math. They should know how to multiply 2(a+b)
before using a calculator to multiply 2*2. Give them real paint to
express themselves-not Tux paint. Give the laptops to parents and
maybe that could help the underdeveloped world more


some more 'costs' for Haiku on OLPC
1 all the work on Haiku's GUI will be thrown out for their favored
sugar UI so you're basically selling just its kernel and file system
2 OLPC must be designed for very cheap hardware. It's one thing to be
very light and efficient but Haiku can't be the OS for all the old
hardware. There's too much of it and people with old pc's won't switch
to a new OS anyway. People will switch to a new OS for new hardware
like multicore 64 bit cpu's with simd and even gpu
3 governments will be making the decision, not users. Merit may not matter

I should add: I feel sorry for all the kids who learned MS Office's UI
in computer class instead of perhaps something more conceptual such as
logo or some other programming language.

On 2/14/07, all4god <all4god at web.de> wrote:
> Have you ever heard of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) programm.
>
> Would be really cool to get in conctact with them and maby possible let
> them run Haiku on this machine.
> If Haiku support this laptop. There are already more than 4 Million
> Notebooks ordered
>
> Haiku could be verry helpfull for this project because it offers a
> lightwight, fast OS with a good GUI.
>
> Hardware specs:
> http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program
>
> http://laptop.org/
>
> http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
>
> What do you think?
> Should anyone contact them?
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