Baldy’s Paradox

SAN DIEGO, Calif.–The citizens of Serrana, Brazil, are not waiting around for Intel or Nicholas Negroponte to deliver low-cost PCs to their school children. Instead, they’re taking the matter into their own hands.
Starting at the end of this month, the Serrana Digital Desk project will get underway when 200 surface PCs that transform into desktop [...]

Lately, Linux has been receiving quite a bit of notice. Between the ASUS EeePC, the One Laptop Per Child project, Dell’s new Ubuntu line, Intel’s Classmate PC, and Everex’s Green PC, Linux has been getting a lot of attention from computer manufacturers. It seems every new computer in the last year has had Linux, but [...]