Manuals

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

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Manuals

Active 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

Support FAQ

Text

Deployment Guide

A guide

Activity Handbook

A software developer's guide for creating software for Sugar

Sugar Almanac

A detailed guide for developers to the APIs in Sugar.

Manuals for earlier releases

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

Getting Started Guide

Beautiful, information for "ship.2"

Nortel LearnIT Using the XO

History

The OLPC Wiki's Simplified user guide

Migration status and diff from FM?

XO Guide

History?

Demo notes