Some pretty stunning video of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's distinctive orange clam-shelled case with a fat antenna sticking up on each side of the color screen came out of the Red Hat Linux meeting in San Francisco on Friday.

At long last, MIT-associated computer experts gave a demonstration of a seriously working model of the final machine to be distributed to worldwide poverty pockets, to the dismay of some industry stalwarts, notably the folks running Microsoft Corp.

The debut was videotaped as the project's Christopher Blizzard opened that hard plastic clamshell case and booted up a version of the Linux operating system that came up slow but then displayed a screen of icons along the lines of Windows and Mac OS.

Details of the working model were disclosed in a video now available.

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