[nycbug-talk] BSD on the <$100 laptop?

[Isaac Levy]

Hi All,

 From Slashdot, then Cnet there was this post about Linux being unfit  
for the'Laptop Per Child' project:
Negroponte: Slimmer Linux needed for $100 laptop

http://news.com.com/Negroponte+Slimmer+Linux+needed+for+100+laptop/ 
2100-7346_3-6057456.html?tag=nefd.lede
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/ns3rr

"People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems," said  
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit  
association, in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here.  
"Suddenly it's like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy  
to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too."

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That stated, if anyone is clost to Negroponte or the MIT scene, could  
you email them and point them to us to talk about all the fabulous  
BSD solutions? (mostly the stripped-down *BSD installs running  
embedded hardware etc...)

To name a few,

PicoBSD (FreeBSD base)
http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html

m0n0wall and m0n0bsd, (FreeBSD 4.x based, aimed at Soekris/WRAP  
embedded)
http://m0n0.ch/

Flashdist (OpenBSD ULTRA-minimal installer)
http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/

etc... etc...

I bet many of us on list could get a functional desktop/windowing  
enviornment setup over a weekend of work- using one of the micro  
machines from the MIT project?

:)

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More about this project:

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69615-0.html?tw=wn_politics_6


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Rocket,
.ike