New year hopes: Hundred dollar laptop

I was going to write a soliloquy about hope this morning - but i couldn't muster up the words. However, there is no more beautiful and hopeful project around at the moment than the hundred dollar laptop.

It is an intoxicating mix of dreams, hard nosed commerce and world weary practicality. AFAIK its going to be running red hat linux, but i'd love to know more about the config, and how easy producing content for it would be.

Anyway, I highly recommend the stream of Nicholas Negroponte outlining it at the emerging technologies conference here.