One Laptop per Child is launching its second Give One/Get One (G1G1) program on November 17, 2008. Last year's program supported the production of over 150,000 XOs. This year the delivery of the laptops in the USA will be handled through
Amazon.com.
The laptops will run the latest release of Sugar on a Linux-based Fedora Core operating system. (It will not dual-boot Windows and Linux, contrary to some reports.) For answers to frequently asked questions, and for other XO giving programs, see
XO giving and the
G1G1 FAQ. And for a bit of nostalgia, here is my favorite image from last year's G1G1 program:

Thank-you videos and more below the fold,
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