Comments on: So much for the $10 computer: Instead 250,000 XOs bound for India http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/so-much-for-the-10-computer-instead-250000-xos-bound-for-india/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: pond http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/so-much-for-the-10-computer-instead-250000-xos-bound-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-1046656 pond Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:24:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/28/so-much-for-the-10-computer-instead-250000-xos-bound-for-india/#comment-1046656 But there does happen to be (sorta) a $10 computer for kids that has a lot to do with OLPC, now that Sugar Labs has released the first beta of Sugar On A Stick (SOAS) which will give kids the whole Sugar environment with their files on a bootable USB thumbdrive. This raises the possibility of a LOAS Library On A Stick with self-contained OS, identity, and login tools to hook you up to major publishers' ebook backlists. Or a $20 LOAS might contain the entire Project Gutenberg library in HTML with images. But there does happen to be (sorta) a $10 computer for kids that has a lot to do with OLPC, now that Sugar Labs has released the first beta of Sugar On A Stick (SOAS) which will give kids the whole Sugar environment with their files on a bootable USB thumbdrive.

This raises the possibility of a LOAS Library On A Stick with self-contained OS, identity, and login tools to hook you up to major publishers’ ebook backlists.

Or a $20 LOAS might contain the entire Project Gutenberg library in HTML with images.

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