"You're having a Turkish" is Cockney rhyming slang. "Turkish Bath" >> "laugh". (It rhymes in a Cockney accent-- "barff" >> "larff".)

I think you've missed something somewhere.

The OLPC has already been designed. Therefore software requirements must meet hardware requirements, foo'.


Just a guess but...
Turkish...

Turkish bath...

do cockney rhyming slang...

Laugh!

PS. This is the only good bit of news I've heard about the project for a while. Shame it's still not looking to good.

Cockney rhyming slang ... 'laugh' into 'bath', i.e. Turkish bath.

Just how would anyone expect the OLPC to even fit any version of the Micr0$0ft LoseDoze O/S? And even if you had and HDD space left after the install for Linux, there wouldn't be enough room for the pagefile, since the amount of RAM isn't satisfactory for M$-Bloatware.

The H/W requirements of the OLPC were meant to keep the cost down, to have it need to support M$-Bloatware kind defeats the purpose now, doesn't it? Brilliant.

Excuse my ignorance but what does "You're having a Turkish" mean?