Microsoft denies dual-booting OLPC
You're having a Turkish
Thursday, 10 January 2008, 15:25
MICROSOFT more or less said, "not on your nelly," to reports that the OLPC's poxy laptop might dual-boot into Windows.
A statement was scrabbled out of Vole Central to the effect that:
“Microsoft is not developing dual-boot Windows XP support for One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop."
It sounds pretty definitive.
A spokesVole admitted the outfit was to have a bash at sticking Winodws XP on the thing, however.
Once its engineers could get their little paws around the cranking handle. µ
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Excuse my ignorance but what does "You're having a Turkish" mean?
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.
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.
I think you've missed something somewhere.

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

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