Rawhide-XO

This is a page for notes and test results for the http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/ development builds.

What is it?

A "spin" of Fedora rawhide (the development version of Fedora 11 Linux) incorporating recent Linux software packages, the Sugar desktop UI and a more conventional Gnome desktop.

As such it is sort of a replacement for the cutting-edge joyride OS images that OLPC used to produce. See Future releases for the change in plans. As such builds are very raw and often may not work at all.

Resources

• preliminary images
• sources
• mailing list
• IRC

Basic user guide

On first boot at the login screen you can choose either Gnome or Sugar from the drop-down at the bottom. You want to login as "liveuser", or wait for automatic login.

Differences from OLPC images

Many of these are probably shared with "Sugar on a Stick" Live USB, and should be on a common page.

• the default user is liveuser, not olpc
• liveuser can't use sudo to run commands as root (but can run su -l to become root).
• many olpc commands missing, such as olpc-init
• different file system
  • /efi instead of /ofw
  • /home/liveuser instead of /home/olpc
• Starts the Gnome desktop.

To start the Sugar UI, in Applications > System Tools > Terminal, type sugar-session (and press Enter). You can right-click on its menu item to move Sugar to a different desktop Workspace.

Known issues

• On the XO-1, you must hold down the check v gamepad key at boot, otherwise boot will hang with the XO guy on white.
• Keyboard map alert.
• Can't choose Gnome or Sugar after desktop login
• No power management until you install Ohm
• The stock Fedora kernel does not play sound, hence (probably) why totem crashes. how to replace with the OLPC kernel

Also see Talk:Rawhide-XO for user reports.

See also

• Sugar on a Stick. "SoaS 2" are similar development builds based on Fedora 11 ("Rawhide").