User:Tdang

I hope for this page to be helpful to me and others. You're others, and I hope it will be helpful to you by answering some basic setup questions which it seems everyone has. I'm going to stick to my own setup, though, so it will be most helpful if you like things the way I do.

I'm me, so I hope this page will help me remember where I'm at in my messing around with my XO.

Overall System

I'm sticking to the standard system, using the standard Fedora OS, and Sugar. I'm using the current stable build, which is 656 right now.

As much as it seems reasonable to me, I'm also sticking to Sugar activities rather than branching out to novel applications. I hope that by doing so I can be part of making the standard system successful.

I'm a G1G1 guy, gave three and got three, two of which are still in my home, which is in Arizona. So, everything here will kinda inevitably be targeted at G1G1 folks in the United States.

Knowledge Level

I'm not a novice or proficient. My XO is the first Linux machine I've ever been intimate with. I have been a professional programmer, but I've always hated system administration.

I'm going to assume that if you're looking for advice from my page, you're about where I am in skill level.

Brand New XO

(or old one, starting from scratch)

OK, you've got an XO. It's smaller than you expected! Damn, it's cute! Argh, I'm supposed to type on this?!

Things to note:

1. There's no human-powered charger included. Drat! The argument is that we don't need them as much as kids in rural areas. I have an outlet within reach most of the time.
2. The OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Sugar Interface/Input Systems#Trackpad isn't enabled. That wasn't a disappointment for me since I didn't know it was part of the specification before I received it. It's suppposed to be implemented later. When it is, you won't need any special XO-stylus; anything properly pointy should work.