I like stories that make me feel all nougat squishy inside. This one does. Apparently the OLPC project is “working together” with Microsoft to “develop” a dual boot system that allows either Linux or XP to be booted.

I have news for them, it already exists, and has for a while in fact.

It’s called GRUB. And if you’re an old salt you might prefer LILO.

If MS has flavored XP to run on the XO (as it is called) then the only real modification I would see to be necessary would be a larger hard-drive. And since the XO uses a flash drive I am sure that won’t be too hard. Currently the XO-1 sports a 1gb flash drive.

My inherent distrust of MS aside, I find it encouraging that Children from all over the world will be able to do exactly what I am doing right now with a choice of software.

The fact that Windows is so prevalent means that the use of XP on the XO-1 will give these kids a good start in the world of “computers everwhere”

Salut to thinking of the kids first!

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