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

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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.

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