Glossary

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activity terms

taking a pic

reading a book

creating a page

annotating a page

animating a drawing

making sounds & music

measuring and sensing

sharing your favorites

inviting your friends

surfing on the web, etc...

XO terms

school server

a machine at each school that works as an access point and provides

serverless peer-to-peer

a wayof providing peer-to-peer sharing of data via peer-to-peer connectivity, from one XO to another.

XS server

see school server

networking terms

infrastructure

sometimes used to describe traditional network connectivity, with an access point

mesh

see mesh layer

mesh view (AKA neighborhood view)

A view of who is sharing the mesh network with you. See sugar terms

mesh layer

a layer that can run over peer-to-peer, over infrastructure, etc.

peer-to-peer

see serverless peer-to-peer

presence

jabber

networking protocol that the XO uses

tubes

tubes runs over the mesh and over traditional infrastructure.

simple mesh

school server mesh

mesh channel

access point

infrastructure mode

mesh portal point

terms for the outer case

dual-tone

the two-color nature of the icon on the outside of the laptop; one color or tone for the o and the other for the x

Hardware and firmware terms

Forth

God's gift to terse programmers

Open Firmware

God's gift to hardware debuggers

System Firmware

The system firmware is made up of 2 parts: The EC and OFW. The first part is the software that runs the embedded controller (EC). The EC handles the processing of the keyboard, touchpad, game buttons, power button, and charging the battery. The second part is OpenFirmware (OFW). OFW is responsible for initializing the hardware and booting the operating system. OFW also handles boot security so that it will only load "offical" OLPC operating systems.

Wireless Firmware

The wireless firmware is software that controls the operation of the wireless radio. It is downloaded into the wireless radio by the operating system.

external storage device terms

Jumpdrive

A small, external storage device that plugs into one of the USB ports on a computer. They can store between 16MB (enough to hold several music files) up to 4GB (enough to hold several high quality full-length movie files) and a wide range in between. Jump drives are easily purchased at any electronic store starting as low as $5 to $10.

Thumb drive

see jump drive

USB drive

see jump drive

USB Stick

see jump drive

Memory Stick

see jump drive

sugar

dual-tone

see terms for the outer case;

home view

a view of what activities you are running, and how much memory they take—the starting view on the laptop;

group view

a view of your friends with whom you are working on shared projects;

neighborhood view

a view of who is sharing the network with you (mesh or otherwise) and what activities are being shared there;

taskbar

the bottom bar of the frame;

activities

Activity

a Sugarized application that can have an icon in the taskbar;

bundle

(also activity bundle, content bundle, collection)

content

library

content bundle

collection

book

linux commands and entities

man

sudo

root

(as in the user)

rpm

Power options

human power

solar power

multi-battery charger

power strip

hand crank

pulley system

XOctoPlug

Security

BitFrost

Rainbow

Activation

Activation key

Developer key

key generation

lease

passive kill

active kill

virus

malware

Documentation and support

Wiki

IRC

Email list

Localization

Pootle

translation

keyboard

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