I just received my new XO laptop that I bought last month. It’s definitely for kids. I have pretty small hands and the keyboard on the laptop is small even for me. I’m pretty impressed with it though. It’s running a version of Fedora, Fedora core 7 I think. But it has a terminal to use and lots of other stuff. I think for kids in developing countries, where cost is the main factor, that these things will work pretty well. Though, it’s funny that it doesn’t come with any sort of documentation. The kid just has to play around with it. I like doing that, but I don’t know how many others do.

I was thinking about giving mine to the kids, but I think that here, I could just buy a really cheap laptop and just install linux myself. It would just be a challenge to get all the drivers working, but I think it would be doable. The software on the XO is basically just a software depot, so I could just download from there to whatever laptop I get. The kids might like some of that stuff. Anyway, I think it’d be worth a try.