Ubuntu on a $99 computer
Chipzilla is doing everything it can to undercut MIT's One Laptop Per Child project not, sadly, in the name of helping disadvantaged kids in Africa and elsewhere, but instead to pander to the God of the Bottom Line. But it's not the only game in town and another cheap system is quietly trundling along in the background.
For a while, AMD was offering a $185 Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) designed to, "bring Internet access to 50 percent of the world's population by 2015".
It came bundled with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation viewer, email, media player, and instant-messaging software and, "AMD claimed it could withstand extreme conditions like temperature and dust," said TechTree India.
Then AMD sold it to Data Evolution who are now marketing it as the decTOP with all the Pic's characteristics, "and more," and at almost half the original price.
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