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This is a [[Live CD]] built from an OLPC ext3 [[OS images|OS image]].

== Project goals ==

* give children, students, teachers and parents the opportunity to participate and use the educational software on a common PC 
* support demonstration of OLPC software to non-developers
* for developers the CD provides an easy maintainable Live system, which could be used to develop and test activities on the [[Sugar]] desktop

== Please give feedback via mailing list ==

http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/livebackup-xo-cd

== Press Information ==

http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugar_on_classmate_pc.html

http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/268610/ (german)

http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2008/04/024/ (german)

== XO-LiveCD Versions ==

=== Release Version 2009-12-03 ===
ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_091203.iso

     - still based on build 8.2.1
     - activitiy updates
     - kernel 2.6.31 for better hardware support

=== Release Version 2009-03-08 ===
ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090308.iso

Mirror:

http://www.skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/
=== Release Version 2008-12-01 ===
ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_081201.iso

Other versions are available by browsing the [ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/ parent directory].

This release is based on the ext3 image of the stable 8.2 branch, build 767 (release [[8.2.0]]). 
The CD contains many activities, including all [[Activities/G1G1|G1G1 activities]].

Main features:
* latest stable version of the [[Sugar]] desktop
* large and customizable collection of activities
* expandable language support, already included are German, French, and Spanish languages.

Read the [ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_081106.pdf release notes].

=== Release Version 2008-09-19  ===

ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/

and mirrored at
* http://www.skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/

The ISO images at the official repository are out of date and only have version 080607 of 2008-06-07:
* http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd

==== A special edition (german) for Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin ====

http://www.skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_Linuxtag2008.iso 

===  Main features and changes since version 080321 ===

* Dual boot option for update.1 and joyride builds. You can try out the new SUGAR design by booting a recent OLPC joyride version.
* Improved CD customization. Additional activities and RPM packages can be installed by putting them into CD top-level directories.
* A new script to prepare USB boot devices out of the Live-ISO image.
* Tested on a wide range of PC and laptop hardware and proved to work with all common virtual machines on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
* Additional Xorg graphic drivers and improved X11 auto-configuration tools.
* Bug fixes, updates and new activities.
* Linux kernel 2.6.24.7, using the aufs-filesystem.

=== Main features and changes since version 080130: ===
                                                                    
* the CD is based on OLPC development build 695
* better hardware support, based on linux kernel 2.6.24.3
* based on LiveBackup Version 1.4.3
* initial ASUS EeePC support (alpha)
* new bootsplash and improved boot-error handling
* playing chess and simulation of electronic circuits now works with gcompris
* bug fixes, updates and new extra activities

=== Main features and changes since the initial version 071206: ===

* the CD is based on OLPC development build 689
* during startup you can choose between English, Spanish, French or German language/keyboard settings.
* the Live-CD has an automated installation of additional (beta) activities. Depending on available RAM size you will get some or all of:
::BlockParty-7.xo, CartoonBuilder-RC-1.7.xo, FlipSticks-RC-1.4.xo,  Implode-2.xo, JigsawPuzzle-1_20071030.xo, Jump-1.xo, Maze-3.xo, Simcity-4.xo, SliderPuzzle-3_20071030.xo, Speak-3.xo, StopWatchActivity-1.xo, StoryBuilder-11.xo, branches-stable-ImageQuiz.activity-ImageQuiz.xo, gcompris.activity.xo
* the documentation has a new chapter about system installation on harddisk and configuration of a multiboot setup.

== Emulation ==
You can run the CD image in an emulator using the <tt>-cdrom ''image_name''.iso</tt> parameter.
The minimal system requirements to start the XO-LiveCD without modifications 
(you may press F1 in the boot screen to read more) is 512 MB of RAM.
So a command to load the CD image in [[QEMU]] is, roughly,
 cd ''qemu directory''
 qemu.exe -L . -m 512 -kernel-kqemu -soundhw es1370 
   -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139 -cdrom XO-LiveCD_''081106''.iso

Even using the kqemu accelerator, the performance using QEMU on Windows is slow.
You may find VirtualBox on Windows does a better job.
[[Category:Live CDs]]