OLPC Give One, Get One restarts on Amazon

OLPC to process the orders; in the US, XO laptops will begin shipping in 30 days.

Outside of the US, the Amazon UK site will be handling all orders.  Deliveries are expected to begin in Q1 2009, or perhaps later.  The machines in question will be running Linux, rather than specially customized for the XO’s hardware.  Interestingly, several companies - Google and SWIFT being two examples - are pledging to meet and double their employees’ donations.

Over 100,000 XO notebooks were donated to developing countries when the Give One, Get One scheme ran last year.  Apparently more buyers chose to donate than to buy for themselves.  The US site is ; however, at time of writing it does not appear to be live.