Photos: Red Hat's beach party

Red Hat has mostly benefited from the kudos associated with the sometimes-controversial "$100 Laptop" or "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) scheme. Although AMD is a major partner in the scheme, Red Hat has somehow managed to manoeuvre itself so that it is now heavily involved in a rival scheme from Intel, which is developing a range of low-cost PCs for developing markets, such as its Classmate device. Not only is Red Hat involved in both schemes, but it has admitted that the operating system it will use for the Intel device — the Global Desktop — is about 95 percent similar to the operating system running the OLPC PC.