Manuals

The OLPC Manual is available as the Help activity for 8.2 and is also online at http://laptop.org/manual

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Manuals

Emerging manuals

Check out our DRAFT "Class Acts" guide for community deployment resources.

See other Community Documentation Projects.

Recent manuals

The OLPC Manual for our new Release 8.2.0 is available in several formats:

• the online manual at http://www.laptop.org/manual
• the Help activity available for release 8.2.0.
• a 240-page downloadable PDF (4.7MB)
  • which is purchasable in book form for $17.54

It was created by volunteers from a combination of two manuals for 8.2.0 developed at FLOSSManuals:

• http://en.flossmanuals.net/XO (single-page "print" version)
• http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar (single-page "print" version

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Deployment Guide

A generalized guide to a large-scale deployment of one laptop per child.

Activity Handbook

A software developer's guide for creating software for Sugar

Sugar Almanac

A detailed guide for developers to the APIs in Sugar.

Laptop overview

A short overview of the XO laptop's hardware and software features.

Manuals for earlier releases

getting started guide

Beautiful, interactive pages that describe XO hardware and the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release. As of November 2008, http://laptop.org/start redirects to this

OLPC/Sugar simple user's guide at Flossmanuals

This is the manual for the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release (builds 650-653) that most G1G1 2007 users received on their XO laptops.

Inactive manuals

Nortel LearnIT Using the XO

History

The OLPC Wiki's Simplified user guide

Migration status and diff from FM?

XO Guide

History?

Demo notes