Keeping an eye out for new Linux distributions to play with, I came across a very new LiveCD. The project is OLPC, also know as “One Laptop Per Child.” This is an initiative to build the sub $100 laptop for children in 3rd world countries who have never had the ability to go online or even do basic word processing. For more information about OLPC visit there website: http://www.laptop.org/. From their website:

Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.

These laptops have undergone many different versions, as they work on the logistics, they have demoed versions that even have a wind up crank.

The liveCD is on a very overloaded redhat server. It took a few tries to get the download, but it is only 291 meg iso. The base for the operating system is “components from Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6 version of the Linux operating system” (from laptop.org)

http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd/

Here is a screenshot of the initial bootup inside of Parallels on a windows pc:

Once it boots I had major issues with the resolution, being unable to see the whole screen on my laptop I didn’t get any further. I also tried booting the LiveCD inside of Virtual PC, but it didn’t like that at all.

Sources:
http://shots.linuxquestions.org/?linux_distribution_sm=OLPC
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6175025-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg
http://www.steffanwilliams.co.uk/software/my-look-at-sugar