In case you didn’t see or hear about the story, MIT has developed an inexpensive, crank-driven, laptop for distribution to children in developing nations. Read more at the MIT site.
One detail I was curious about, what OS will it use? Turns out that it is a variant of Redhat Linux. I found this out through an African tech news story.
Very cool!
Via the newly published Treehouse magazine.
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”
-Jeff Bezos
That is awesome.
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