Photos: Red Hat's beach party

Chris Blizzard is Red Hat's man on the OLPC project and he revealed that the organisation is aiming to have its final production spec machine ready to go out to one of the first recipient countries — Brazil, Libya or maybe Nigeria — by September this year. Effectively in beta phase, the XO device (as the OLPC machine is known) is receiving some last-minute fine-tuning based on findings from field trials. The flip-up aerials — or ears, as they are affectionately known — are being replaced with soft rubber, as the current plastic ones seem prone to breaking. Oh yes, and you can play Tetris on it too.