...ve, a distinction was maintained between questions that had been answered, and questions that had not been. (Of the questions that follow, the 5 questions
...d by events over the last 12-18 months, the distinction may be misleading, and as I've merged the archive I've thought it clearer to abandon those labels.
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...ll this machine be a platform capable of running a wide range of Unix-like OS's?
...other OS for their laptops. The OLPC group will provide support for the OS and software that we develop.
59 KB (9,999 words) - 12:02, 1 June 2012
...elease 8.1.0 and later, an overview of the licensing terms of these source and binary packages can be found in the 'olpc-licenses' package or in <tt>/usr/
== Linux OS and OLPC software ==
3 KB (454 words) - 19:51, 13 August 2010
* Sugar activities, and
...ild system makes software images which can be installed on XOs for testing and deployment.
5 KB (780 words) - 01:50, 8 December 2011
...prove overwhelming to many new users. Don't assume that the reader has a Linux background.
...you have only 256M ram. Instead, simply create the directory "/etc/cups" and add a file "/etc/cups/client.conf" with a single line:
7 KB (1,243 words) - 03:22, 30 January 2011
...turing data, might be copied to the CMOS RAM, and then is picked up by the OS.
...and. It then creates a string, pushes a length and pointer onto the stack, and lets parsing continue on. Eeeeew...
7 KB (966 words) - 14:13, 6 October 2012
...t does not permit sub-licensing, so while including it would be convenient and OLPC may choose to execute this agreement in the future, those redistributi
...The archive is no longer available from fluendo.com via the specified link and at 2014-10-01 the instructions no longer work. For release 13.2.1 refer to
6 KB (980 words) - 08:14, 27 October 2014
...[[XO-4]] have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMediaCard#eMMC e•MMC], and an external [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMediaCard SD] slot,
...XO-1.5]] has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMediaCard microSD] slot, and an external SD slot,
10 KB (1,527 words) - 01:59, 16 December 2016
sudo yum install http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.2.0.13-fedora.i586.rpmu
== Skype Static and alternatives ==
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...for the 8.2 release. It has a lot of fixes, and supports dual-boot (Linux and Windows XP).
...If you aren't sure what series XO you have, then you have something recent and safe.'''
2 KB (322 words) - 14:16, 6 October 2012
...In addition, it has been tested to be safe (does not brick) on B1, B2-1, and preB3. Do not use it on pre-B1 boards - it will brick them because of the
* OLPC Trac 5128 - Set RTC alarm day, alarm month, and century offset MSRs, and set century byte to 20.
4 KB (645 words) - 14:17, 6 October 2012
=XO Bundle and Mono Bundle=
...s is necessary because the Mono runtime is not officially supported by the OS images.
6 KB (998 words) - 16:54, 6 February 2015
...an integral part of OLPC deployments. School Server acts as a central hub and provides various services to XO laptops. It also hosts additional contents
...ts version 9 release, and has just released Fedora 15 hosting a lot of new and interesting features.
19 KB (3,130 words) - 12:21, 6 June 2011
...image" including the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora 18] operating system and a modern [http://sugarlabs.org Sugar Learning] environment. Again, back up
...hensive table]]. These software environments include the operating system and built-in Sugar Activities.
5 KB (833 words) - 21:23, 16 November 2015
.... Also, when answering a new question (at the end of the page), please cut and paste it to before the line near the end that begins with /noinclude; that
...gured my router to use Transmit channel 06, the second XO started working (and the first continued working).
53 KB (8,951 words) - 18:44, 7 November 2014
On other Linux systems that have "man", enter
or on many Linux system that use "yum" and "info", but only if you are familiar with "info" or "emacs", enter
4 KB (621 words) - 23:41, 18 August 2014
...forum posts. For a more-integrated Sugar/XFCE experience, see the [[XFCE and Sugar]] article.
...sitories. [[yum]] is the command that will retrieve the files you request and it will automatically install them. You will need to have [[root]] access
27 KB (4,332 words) - 22:37, 18 January 2011
...roblem. This page attempts to describe what you might see at such a hang, and what the possible causes might be.
== Laptop Power and Battery ==
7 KB (1,283 words) - 23:01, 11 October 2012
# We inadvertently included an earlier version of the firmware with the OS image in 653; so this build will include the latest firmware, which helps t
...moved or shipped there is a possibility that the battery will be dislodged and the laptop will no longer boot.
6 KB (1,041 words) - 23:17, 26 January 2011
...n third world countries, it's also an issue at/in airports, parks, beaches and planes. With the hand crank/foot pedal/pull cord I would be a walking evan
== Languages and countries ==
52 KB (8,784 words) - 18:54, 1 December 2012
