Sec: Unclassified - Pitch Ubuntu at $100 wind up laptop?

>> Robert Stoffers:
>>     I wonder if we should be pitching Ubuntu at the $100 wind up laptop?
>> 
>>     http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5594.html
>>     http://www.stuffmag.co.uk/hotstuffarticle.asp?de_id=787
>>     http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

Marius Bock wrote:
> As far as I know it was decided to ship it with Red Hat -- probably some
> incarnation of Fedora.  That is after they said no to the free offer
> from Apple for Mac OS X.

I reckon they refused using OS/X because it was not Open Source. We know
that Ubuntu is better than Red Hat, so yes, it would be nice if some effort
could be spent in this direction. :-)

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