not that i want to rob kids from their labtop but i've been thinking since i learned about the OLPC programme that the XO-1 labtop would make an ideal tool in the field for astronomy - planetarium, guiding, etc.
someone has done a planetarium... now we just need someone to do an imaging tool in linux...
http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/educa ... tware.html
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