XO Software

A Linux distribution for the OLPC laptop
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • OLPC
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.laptop.org/

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XO Software Description

A Linux distribution for the OLPC laptop XO Software is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO Laptop.One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an initiative to build a low-cost laptop computer with a pre-installed operating system and applications designed for children in developing countries.The operating system is a Linux-based solution, a heavily customised edition of Fedora Core with a special graphical user interface called Sugar. Among applications, the system includes a web browser built on Xulrunner, a simple document viewer based on Evince; the AbiWord word processor, an RSS reader, email, chat and VOIP clients, a multimedia authoring and playback environment, a music composition toolkit, graphics toolkits, games, a shell, and a debugger. What's New in This Release: · A updated Home view and Journal with new options for finding and organizing activities. · An enhanced Frame for collaborating with other XOs and switching between running activities. · A graphical Control Panel for setting language, network, and power preferences. · An automated Software Update tool which finds the latest version of activities and updates them over the Internet. · Integration with the School Server for backup of XOs and restore of files to the Journal as needed. · New and updated translations for many languages. · A new user manual shipped with the XO as an activity. · Hundreds of bug fixes.


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