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Kind of a poor naming choice. I went there expecting some hackers using OLPCs running Sugar. The page itself makes it fairly difficult to discern just what this is all about, indeed it wasn't till I read devmonk's comment that things made some sense.

It still doesn't make much sense. What's to distinguish this from, say, Ubuntu running on an EeePc? There are some vague noises about sharing, but not much else. On http://www.gdium.com/node/518 it looks like there's some sort of admission process, but I need to register to see it, so... meh.

Hardware: http://www.gdium.com/group/16/home

http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-10-Inch-Netbook-GDNBL10USK006-...

According to one comment, the cost was $369.

The OLPH or “One Laptop Per Hacker” is a project dedicated to hacking on the Gdium which is a MIPS based netbook.

Kind of reminds me of Richard Stallman's 100% "free" Lemote Yeelong netbook which is also MIPS based.

http://olph.gdium.com/wiki/doku.php

http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

ah! MIPS... the product page on their site does not even mention it!

i read the specs and said "meh. someone cloned the 4yr old eeepc 900. nothing to see here"

now, add a hdmi port and i will consider that instead of a eee keyboard.

One Laptop Per Hacker--OLPH