One Laptop Per Child Project OS LiveCD Released

[BoogyMan]

For any of you die-hard geeks out there willing to play with a new OS for fun, the OLPC mod of Red Hat Linux has been released as a live CD.

The Sugar graphical user interface is acutally pretty neat.

You can obtain an ISO at the link below:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/10/olpcs-linux-based-operating-system-available-for-download/

If you are not familiar with the OLPD project it is worth reading about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop

[wonder cow]

It's a good project. I like the idea of the hand crank.

[Labrocca]

Servers are booked solid. I can't get a download to start.

http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd/

[BoogyMan]

It took me a solid hour to get my download to start. It got Slashdotted so you can rest assured it will take a while to get the ISO.

[Labrocca]

I might have to wait a few days then before I actually get this. How big is the download btw? You have an FTP somewhere boogy you can share this with me?

[firefox]

Do they have any mirrors (alternative download sites) available? Alternatively, you can sometimes get this stuff via Bittorrent.

[BoogyMan]

I might have to wait a few days then before I actually get this. How big is the download btw? You have an FTP somewhere boogy you can share this with me?


I haven't found any alternate FTP sites but will keep on the lookout. The ISO download is 291 MB.

[Labrocca]

FYI- download seems available now

[Labrocca]

FYI- download seems available now