Category: OLPC

  • One of the things I noticed right away when I started installing alternative operating systems on my OLPC XO-1 is that not all combinations of OS and software ran equally well. In fact, some configurations ran so slowly that it was almost unbearable to use as a normal environment.  To be fair, this is par…

  • As I write this, the holiday shopping season has started but the rumored tablets, netbooks and eReaders with the Pixel Qi screens have not materialized.  So for now, the OLPC XO-1 computer is my favorite netbook and eReader device. I did not get there without changing the standard operating system and software that came with…

  • Introduction It’s been almost two years since I purchased my OLPC XO-1 computer as part of the Give 1 Get 1 program. For $400 US, I was able to donate one computer and keep one for myself.  Since then a number of significant events have happened: the netbook category, lead by the Asus EEE PC,…