By Andrew Donoghue
Published: Monday 05 June 2006
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Philippines
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Educator
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Puppy Linux always escapes Negroponte's attention - Since April 2006, he has been complaining about "fat Linux", but never acknowledging the presence of Puppy Linux or its cousins, DamnSmallLinux and Austrumi, Linux distributions with 50-70 MB footprint that are very much ready for the OLPC device.
Puppy Linux founder Barry Kauler has gone to the extent of publishing his comments about the OLPC, discussed here: http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS2746872300.html
See Barry's page here: http://puppyos.com/olpc/
Despite these developments, Negroponte still speaks, "We need your support not to make it overweight and hard to use like all the others are".
Perhaps he needs to be educated first about the frontiers reached by Linux beyond the halls of Red Hat, OLPC's founding partner.
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