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I participated in the "Give One, Get One" campaign where I bought one and donated one. I used it to read my email for a while - it was super slow but I enjoyed
by gerbler 5y ago
I participated in the "Give One, Get One" campaign where I bought one and donated one. I used it to read my email for a while - it was super slow but I enjoyed the novelty. It used Sugar OS which was their own Linux flavor (I think).
I was a bit naive about the whole project - I heard Negroponte speak at an event where he was arguing defensively that all a country needs is technology (even ahead of civil society) and I was so disillusioned. I was no expert in this area, but his arguments were very weak. Pretty disappointing and I feel bad for the really kind and generous people who poured so much of their time into this project because it had garnered so much goodwill.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoI also did G1G1 and used my X0-1 some (though it was pretty slow even by ~2007 standards, Sugar was an interesting idea for a WM / UI, but running all that through Python...). Negroponte may have come off as unrealistic, but they did have some successes with the OLPC in South America, and other pilot projects[1]. It seems like someone could make a rugged chassis like that for an RPi 4 compute module these days. 1: https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/10/29/84908/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/10/29/84908/given-tabl...
- voldacar 5y agoYeah Negroponte is a grifter. He has been involved in other failed stuff like this too. He is basically a ted talk personified
- gerbler 5y agoVery accurate way of describing him.
- imtringued 5y agoIf you are going down the "all a country needs is X" rabbit hole you'd start with the most important of all things a country has to provide: Stability. Everything else follows from that, even technology.