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Overview

OLPC software is a set of carefully chosen and integrated linux applications, creating an innovative user environment.

Basically, the laptop runs Red Hat linux with X Window, with a novel Sugar user interface and support library, supporting a core set of "activities". Activities are programs which follow the OLPC Human Interface Guidelines. There is an emphasis on Python and GTK. Random linux software can be run too, but having a common and enabling user interface is nice, and requiring additional libraries (KDE, java runtime, whatever) is in tension with disk and memory limits.

Activities lists the current base applications, and a few of those under development.

You can:

If you are comfortable reading python and writing documentation, much new code is in need of doc strings, tutorials, etc. (sugar, geckoembed, ...what else?)

Some Details

(This section needs to be updated)

There are four flavors of software:

Developers program

BTest Software

Build images

Laptop software

OLPC Python Environment

Software schedules

Testing checklist

Open Firmware

Device drivers

Misc

See also