Manuals

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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:

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

Support FAQ
Text
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.

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, interactive pages documenting the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release. As of November 2008, http://laptop.org/start redirects to this
Nortel LearnIT Using the XO
History
The OLPC Wiki's Simplified user guide
Migration status and diff from FM?
XO Guide
History?
Demo notes