The first 200 units in the low-cost One Laptop Per Child project rolled off the assembly line. Full mass production is due to start in the second quarter of 2007,
The OLPC laptop features a 2.6.19 Linux kernel, and an integrated user environment called Sugar that includes a web browser, a chat system, a simple word processor, and other basic software components. Additional applications will be available for download from an official Internet repository.
Previous coverage of OLPC referred to a $100 purchase price, but that's not included in the article linked to above. I don't know why.
"It’s not the fastest little machine in the world, but it definitely has personality and I find myself falling in love with it," says developer Christopher Blizzard, who's involved in the project.
