OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) now available as Virtual Appliance
From Richard Garsthagen: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) now available as Virtual Appliance.
Well the machines just started rolling out of the factories, but if you are interested to know what the childeren in the poor african countries will have to their disposal, you can check out the OLPC as a virtual appliance. Tom Hoffman has made the OLPC images available on his blog.
But it's not all kids with laptops. Last month, Tarry Singh went to Africa and showed off some virtual tools to the university crowd. Go ahead and click through to the pics from his trip.
TarryBlogging: Virtual Appliances in Africa? Just ask Jessica!.
They say a pictures speak volumes. So I'll post some pics here on my tour to the Uganda Technical College, Elgon. Here I am letting Jessica open up the Virtual Appliance OTRS and log on to the helpdesk system and filing a complaint! :-)
Posted by VMTN on November 22, 2006 in virtual appliances
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I've downloaded the VMWare OLPC machine and it runs. But the UI is icon-driven and the icons are not clear to me. I have searched for a website with information unsuccessfully. Does anyone have a link with info on the UI?
Posted by: Alan Cohen | November 27, 2006 at 05:01 AM
I found on the OLPC Wiki this on the Sugar UI and this on zooming and UI.
Posted by: jtroyer | November 27, 2006 at 08:39 AM
It would be nice if the download link wasn't broken :-)
Posted by: Court Kizer | May 21, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Google is your friend in this case: a quick search reveals a number of mirrors, although going to the OPLC wiki reveals that they're having some trouble with drivers right now, but they do have VMware-compatible images available.
Posted by: jtroyer | May 21, 2007 at 01:06 PM