Red Hat News - it's probably Classmate

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Dec 13 03:24:40 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Craig White wrote:
>On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 18:35 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> > John Wendel wrote:
>> >> Craig White wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:54 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
>> >>>> Interesting, I wonder which utilities they're talking about?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "Red Hat officials said they were postponing the release once again
>> >>>> to give the company time to resolve issues with rights to distribute
>> >>>> music and video-playing utilities with its operating system."
>> >>>
>> >>> ----
>> >>> link?
>> >>>
>> >>> Craig
>> >>
>> >> Sorry (lazy me)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN1149866820071211?sp=tr
>> >>ue
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >
>> >    What version were they to offer? It's not a Fedora issue is it? F9 I
>> > thought would be later.
>> >
>> > Karl
>>
>> i think they are talking about this:
>>
>> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/red_hat_intel_classmate_
>>pc.html
>>
>> it's basically competition for OLPC.
>
>----
>cool...my boss ordered one of the OLPC (on the 2 for 1 deal) and I'm
>looking forward to playing with it. No wonder why redmondmag is
>gloating...Microsoft is pretty much just an interested party anyway.
>
>Craig

Be aware, very aware, when Redmond gets interested.  They can teach the CIA 
tricks.  Humm, on second thought, with the CIA's track record recently, maybe 
they should.

-- 
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