Uruguay has become the first nation to offer laptops to all children attending state primary school - and they're running Linux!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8309583.stm

More about Sugar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%28d ... ronment%29

One of my friends in the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University worked on the Sugar project.

Its a neat idea, but there were wayyyyyyy too many political snafus to make the project 100% successful. Between developer disagreement, Microsoft's scheming and interference, and hardware challenges, we'll see how the little guys actually do.

yeah, i'd assume there's plenty of political issues to come along with this.
and off-topic, but OSS labs at OSU have great servers, super fast, its where
I get my ubuntu from.

I always torrent mine

Microsoft is such a f-ed up company. I will tell the story with little faces.

Once upon a time there were people.

They were happy but lacked computers.

But one day they got free laptop with linux.

Then Microsoft came a spread lies about Linux and the people were confused.

Microsoft leaked free copies of Windows for the people to use.

Then once the people had incorporated Windows into their lives Windows charged them to use it and sued the companies for using pirated software.

The people had no choice by to pay if they wanted to be a part of the world economy.

And that kids is just one of the many reasons why Microsoft sucks.

And this smily is Martin.

i hope there's a sequel (i might as well have written SQL, this group is nerdy enough to get it).