I’d like to appeal to the Ubuntu(Xbuntu) community today. With news that Intel has defected from the $100 laptop for every child organization, and apparently did everything to thwart it in it’s own interests, we could do better by developing a highly supported reference distro for low powered devices like the XO, internet tablets and such. Ubuntu is an organization uniquely situated to bring forth the kind of open source and professional resources needed to benefit this project and spread Linux to needy children all over the world. Intel and Microsoft are clearly scared of the spreading influence of the OLPC program as seen that their only desire was to introduce their “Classmate” which was powered by Windows. Kids and poor countries would benefit more to have a Linux based computer and systems to learn to use and build around than an Wintel based system that they might likely spend more time fixing and defending against all the little issues that come about because of Windows itself. The Ubuntu community has been great at building a distribution that “Just Works” and to see a focus on the smaller devices out there would greatly benefit everyone involved.