...mdash;do not need to learn about IT and certainly do not need to be fluent users of WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT—They are not office workers. However, p
...n/listinfo mailing lists] for generic OLPC discussions not specific to any Linux distribution, and a [[Jobs at OLPC]] page.
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...ivers offline messages later and is serverless, coded in c++ and ready for linux. As well Group-Chat is possible to teach a class or more than one person.
...nce the primary use of these systems is in a village or school and all the users are expected to know one another, the buddy list should automatically be po
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An interesting goal for expert users (e.g. to pass an exam) could be to create a factory that built other robots
....html Fischertechnik Robotics] (The "ROBO Pro" language is being ported to Linux)
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=== The laptop will be Linux-based ===
*False: There is no strategy change. The OLPC is continuing to develop a Linux-based software set for the laptop in conjunction with Red Hat. But since th
36 KB (5,905 words) - 23:20, 20 January 2014
There are a number of different places where users can contribute to OLPC. This list currently highlights software and text r
...core software includes the firmware ([[Open Firmware]]), operating system (Linux, Fedora 7), and various other large Open Source projects. Much of the core
10 KB (1,541 words) - 11:13, 4 September 2013
* After setting up the connection once, multiple laptop users can download the files they want. Even if the connection is only with one l
...ve information or software via MHP, an OLPC school would use an MS Windows/Linux Multimedia-computer. The cable from the satellite dish would be connected t
15 KB (2,631 words) - 08:48, 21 October 2011
...d a smaller than normal LCD screen to conserve battery power. It also runs Linux as its standard OS.
...can be run on many current computers. You can start by running a low-power Linux environment. Then test the [[Sugar]] software releases or develop additions
43 KB (7,490 words) - 20:04, 5 August 2013
...to add also that interface, since it has no appreciable cost, and empower users decide how to set up their school/club networks. Of course, in some cases "
...principle has been proven to be possible. Again, if memory serves me, the Linux driver was developed by someone who wanted video on an ARM-based NSLU2 whic
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: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/pai04100.htm
: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/pai04200.htm
40 KB (6,833 words) - 05:22, 22 May 2013
...roject of the PRC, Japan, and South Korea is creating a unified version of Linux able to handle Chinese, Japanese, and Korean with equal facility, singly or
...se phonetic conversion, pioneered in the Xerox J-STAR workstation in 1981. Users can type phonetically in kana or romaji (Romanization). The input is conver
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...resentation of the keyboard that indicated which key is pressed would help users learn to touch type since they would not have to look down at the keyboard,
...here there is no school server set up, it would be an easy way to save the users content. At the moment, I believe it's a manual process. - Thanks, Lewie
36 KB (6,099 words) - 01:43, 6 September 2011
=== Focus should be put on creating games for linux not emulation ===
Here is a list of existing linux midi software
16 KB (2,595 words) - 18:00, 9 December 2008
...ober]]. Currently there are not any truly outstanding PSK applications for Linux (at least, not in the same capacity as DigiPan or MixW that Windows offers)
...be useful for the XO (especially for file transers to remote areas). Solid linux-based software for PACTOR is unknown at the time, use of a TNC for PACTOR i
51 KB (8,203 words) - 22:35, 1 November 2008
...e at [[Keyboard layouts]], which describes keyboards commonly available in Linux distributions. --[[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]] 20:26, 2 November 2006 (EST)
...I X3.207:1991). It is provided on every recent version of Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and BSD Unix. No changes to the hardware are needed for using it for touch
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[http://puppylinux.com/index.html PuppyLinux] is a small Linux distribution intended to be fully featured. Started by Barry Kauler, it ha
* Hacao linux, Vietnamese Puppy Linux version 2.01 released. The live-CD iso file is 79.5M. The big items in this
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*[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/dapper/+lang/am Ubuntu Linux Dapper drake], because of the [https://launchpad.net/ launchpad] facility.
**Preparing the first phase of products to be delivered to the users.
11 KB (1,713 words) - 07:21, 15 March 2010
...rious Linux libraries are also "core" to the system; things like Video for Linux and Gstreamer are available, but they are not OLPC specific.
...which provides the overall GUI interface for the laptop Operating System (Linux). It is a Python application which currently uses an overlay "frame" which
21 KB (3,238 words) - 11:23, 1 June 2012
As any USB compliant storage device supported by Linux, should work just fine. In that sense (USB 2.0 standard compliance) also me
ftdi_sio support apparently has a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.22, which is what the XO currently uses. There is a patch. Has a
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*Virtual 2D or 3D world where users can create avatars, chat with other users, etc. (Sort of like [[wikipedia:Second Life|Second Life]] for kids)
* Sharable interactive disassembler for Linux ELF x86, FLASH ActionScript bytecode, [[88W8388|wireless firmware]], Python
40 KB (6,175 words) - 23:40, 3 February 2013
...systems. The technologies are open source and built on a tried and tested Linux kernel and operating system (which is seeing rapid growth of adoption in th
...empowered within their communities, since they will rapidly become expert users of computing and communications systems.
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