foss.in 2008 :: Day 4

Day 4 @ foss.in 2008

IndLinux Project BOF






Beacon Workout

Sharing ideas after Apertium talk

Sachin Joshi demo's his Hindi ASR system


Flashing the Neo FreeRunner


Connecting the FreeRunner with an USB cable and reseting it to boot from NOR



dfu-util in action


dfu-util writes the kernel and File system images to the device

Just Messing Around !

Few more OLPC XO's sighted



Lou Bébert brought it his ubuntu studio turntables hookup


XwaX UI

External USB sound card ( look at scheme diagram)


Ubuntu Studio PC

Aasim tries his hand at DJing

Ramki nails another victim

Don't wanna sing!

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Classmate 2 PC Review (Video )

Watch the latest Classmate 2 (aka "netbooks") announced by Andrew chien (Intel vice president, Corporate Technology Group and director of Intel Research) at Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai this month (April 2008).





The second-generation Intel-powered classmate PC is powered by Intel® Atom™ Processor.

Darren Waters compares the Classmate 2 PC with the OLPC XO laptop .

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XP on XO soon

Last year I blogged in OLPC XO Production Delays, Microsoft Monster Catches Up about on the plans to run a Microsoft Windows OS on OLPC XO laptop something like this.



Yeah right, I guess a thousand slaves are working in dark dungeons trying to squeeze the Windows XP white elephant into the XO. :0)

It now seems that they are on the final stages of completing this Herculean technical feat according to this OLPC News story.



I guess its the end of the OLPC project. So long folks!.

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Top 5 Sub $300 laptops compared

Amy wrote me to say 'just posted an article "Top 5 Sub-$300 Laptops Compared" . I thought I'd bring it to your attention just in case you think your readers would find it interesting.'

The post mentions 'Elonex ONE', 'Zonbu' and 'PC 2G Surf' which I have never heard of. Does anyone provide more information and comments about these devices.

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OLPC XO-1 demo-ed at ILUG-Goa Meet

This tiny and unusual computer was demoed at the monthly meeting of ILUG-Goa, the Free Software and Open Source user group that meets at the Goa Science Centre in Miramar, last Saturday (Jan 26, 2008).


Ms. Rut Pinto Viegas Jesus, a Copenhagen-based PhD researcher of Goan-Portuguese ancestry, managed to bring down one model of the computer, while visiting Goa on holiday and a family visit to her relations in Santa Cruz and Salcete.

The 4000-rupee computer shows up in Goa

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