Rawhide-XO
This is a page for notes and test results for the http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/rawhide-xo/ development builds.
What is it?
A "spin" of Fedora rawhide (the development version of Fedora 11 Linux) incorporating recent Linux software packages, the Sugar desktop UI and a more conventional Gnome desktop.
As such it is sort of a replacement for the cutting-edge joyride OS images that OLPC used to produce. See Future releases for the change in plans. As such builds are very raw and often may not work at all.
Resources
Basic user guide
On first boot at the login screen you can choose either Gnome or Sugar from the drop-down at the bottom. You want to login as "liveuser", or wait for automatic login.
Sugar
If you start the Gnome desktop (the default), you can sort-of start the Sugar UI from within Gnome: in Applications > System Tools > Terminal, type sugar-session (and press Enter). You can right-click on its menu item to move Sugar to a different desktop Workspace.
Alt+Shift+F brings up the Frame.
See Keyboard shortcuts for keys in Sugar and http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar for Sugar instructions.
Differences from OLPC images
Many of these are probably shared with "Sugar on a Stick" Live USB, and should be on a common page.
- the default user is liveuser, not olpc
- liveuser can't use sudo to run commands as root (but can run su -l to become root).
- many olpc commands missing, such as olpc-neststatus
- different file system
- /efi instead of /ofw
- /home/liveuser instead of /home/olpc
Known issues
- On the XO-1, you must hold down the check v gamepad key at boot, otherwise boot will hang with the XO guy on white.
- Keyboard map alert.
- Can't choose Gnome or Sugar after desktop login
- No power management until you install Ohm
- The stock Fedora kernel does not play sound, hence (probably) why totem crashes. how to replace with the OLPC kernel
Also see Talk:Rawhide-XO for user reports.
See also
- Sugar on a Stick. "SoaS 2" are similar development builds based on Fedora 11 ("Rawhide").