OLPC LOOKS UP TO 4 MORE MAKERS

The extensive authority of the One Laptop per Child proposal continues to spread out its sphere. Not long ago it was indistinct whether the PC formerly conceived as a $100 notebook for kids in developing countries would ever turn out to be a reality after an elongated series of delays. Now the XO notebook looks on the threshold of fetching a hot item, and all the investigate that went into it is leading down opposing paths. Walter Bender, who just dropped the OLPC proposal to start up its open-source software spinoff, is supposedly in "informal discussions" to obtain its Linux operating system on low-cost notebooks made by 4 producers. The nonprofit spinoff, Sugar Laboratories, is holding discussions with Pixel Qi and is exciting in pursuing an association with Intel, Bender told the news agency. No other producers were listed, though he quoted Asus on Sugar Labs' Web site the previous week. It's only the most modern transformation in a long-running chronicle that has witnessed internal strife, resignations, and other disagreement since the project's beginning. Last month OLPC originator Nicholas Negroponte whispered the XO might toggle from Linux to Windows XP, but that transform remains to be witnessed. Stay tuned.