The all-terrain, solar powered Linux sport utility laptop!

Posted by jimlynch on Aug 8, 2013 8:42 PM EDT
ITworld; By Jim Lynch
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Today in Open Source: An Ubuntu-based sport utility laptop. Plus: Open source satellites and voting machines!

If you're one of those folks who loves the great outdoors, and who needs to take a laptop with you, then you'll dig the SOL from WeWi. SOL is a solar powered laptop that is built to withstand everything nature can throw at it.

The SOL ships with Ubuntu built-in, so you get all the benefits of the Ubuntu Software Center (thousands and thousands of free, open source applications available for download), and the ease of use of Ubuntu itself. Given Ubuntu's popularity and development resources, it was probably a good choice for the SOL.

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