Are you familiar with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation? This is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to help give every child in the world access to a modern education through a rugged, cost-effective, and energy efficient laptop called XO laptop.
The OLPC Foundation aims to provide each child in the developing countries with an XO laptop because they believe that this gadget can help improve children’s education, hence, their quality of life. Known for being a child-centric laptop, the first-version of XO comes light in weight and is made adaptable enough to the conditions of the developing world. This device has a high-resolution, easy-to-read screen that functions even under direct sunlight. The said laptop also runs open and free software known as Sugar. Anyone is allowed to copy, run, study, distribute, alter, and enhance.
The succeeding versions of XO will be called XO 1.5, XO 1.75, and XO 3.0. The XO 1.5 will carry the first version’s industrial design but it will be outfitted with a VIA processor and will deliver 2x the speed, 4x DRAM, and 4x FLASH memory. It will operate both on Windows and Linux operating systems. The XO 1.75 will also come with the same design but will be rubber-bumpered on the outside. Inside, it will feature an 8.9 inches touch screen display and it will be equipped with an ARM processor. The XO 3.0, on the other hand, will have a new design, which will make use of a single sheet of flexible plastic that’s design to be unbreakable.
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The OLPC project and its little green and white laptop aims to equip children from developing countries the skills that they need most instead of office productivity software. But the project is facing some tough challenges with some sponsors pulling out of the race for pushing education and lack financial backing. But now, everyone can help in OLPC’s dream of helping children and giving them the real OS that would suit them by creating Sugar on a Stick. The Sugar is an operating system that is based on the Linux Fedora system. It has an automatic diary system instead of files and folders that you commonly found in ordinary computers that would mean easier learning for children. Sugar on a Stick is a bootable flash drive where the Sugar OS can be ran without complicated installations. Now, anyone can download the Sugar OS and transform their dusty old flash drives into Sugar on Stick drives which you can donate to less fortunate schools. Also, this means that a person living in a developing country can take advantage of the learning tools present in Sugar OS without having to wait for OLPC to gather funding for the laptops to arrive.
