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

the OLPC security platform.

Rainbow

Rainbow implements the isolation shell implicitly described in the Bitfrost security specification. This means that it isolates activities (and eventually system services) that it is asked to run from one another and the rest of the system.

Activation

In order to use your laptop for the first time (or after a "reflash" of the operating system), it must be unlocked by an activation key.

Activation key

The key that unlocks the laptop

Developer key

If the boot firmware sees a developer key, it makes the XO laptop work just like any ordinary PC-style laptop, in the sense that it will let you interrupt the boot process and enter commands; and it will try to boot and run any program you supply to it, no matter whether the OLPC organization has tested or signed it. (The laptop also works this way if its firmware security is disabled.)

Signed/unsigned builds

OLPC produces both "signed" and "unsigned" builds of the operating system. Signed builds are release builds that have undergone QA testing. Unsigned builds are development builds, which are used for testing new features and bug fixes. You cannot run an unsigned build in your laptop unless you have either a developer key or security has been turned off (as in the case of the G1G1 laptops).

key generation

The process of generating both activation and developer keys

lease

When a laptop is activated, the activation has an expiration date. The period between activation and expiration is the lease period. The lease period is determined during the key-generation process; the laptop can be reactivated after the lease has expired.

passive kill

currently unsupported, this is a mechanism that uses the lease mechanism to require laptops to periodically ask for a renewed activation. Without the renewal, the lease will expire and the laptop will be locked.

active kill

currently unsupported, this is mechanism where by a laptop that has been reported stolen can be remotely shutdown when it connects to the Internet.

virus

malware

Documentation and support

Wiki

IRC

Email list

Localization

Pootle

translation

keyboard

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