June 16 Distro of the Day: One Laptop Per Child

Today's Distro of the Day is One Laptop Per Child. The OLPC project is a nonprofit project out of the MIT Media Lab to distribute $100 laptops to children throughout the world. It is designed to be extremely low power and work in remote areas without power or network. The hope is that by supplying children with laptops, "children in emerging nations will be opened to both illimitable knowledge and to their own creative and problem-solving potential."

Using LivePC technology, you can try out the OLPC operating system for yourself. Just install the LivePC Engine and click to download the OLPC LivePC.

Here is a 90 second video podcast showing off OLPC:

Read more Distro-of-the-Day posts at www.distrooftheday.org.