Glossary
activity terms
- taking a pic
- reading a book
- creating a page
- annotating a page
- animating a drawing
- making sounds & music
- measuring and sensing
- sharing your favorites
- inviting your friends
- surfing on the web, etc...
XO terms
- school server
- a machine at each school that works as an access point and provides
- serverless peer-to-peer
- a wayof providing peer-to-peer sharing of data via peer-to-peer connectivity, from one XO to another.
- XS server
- see school server
networking terms
- infrastructure
- sometimes used to describe traditional network connectivity, with an access point
- mesh
- see mesh layer
- mesh view (AKA neighborhood view)
- A view of who is sharing the mesh network with you. See sugar terms
- mesh layer
- a layer that can run over peer-to-peer, over infrastructure, etc.
- peer-to-peer
- see serverless peer-to-peer
- presence
- jabber
- networking protocol that the XO uses
- tubes
- tubes runs over the mesh and over traditional infrastructure.
- simple mesh
- school server mesh
- mesh channel
- access point
- infrastructure mode
- mesh portal point
terms for the outer case
- dual-tone
- the two-color nature of the icon on the outside of the laptop; one color or tone for the o and the other for the x
Hardware and firmware terms
- Forth
- God's gift to terse programmers
- Open Firmware
- God's gift to hardware debuggers
- System Firmware
- The system firmware is made up of 2 parts: The EC and OFW. The first part is the software that runs the embedded controller (EC). The EC handles the processing of the keyboard, touchpad, game buttons, power button, and charging the battery. The second part is OpenFirmware (OFW). OFW is responsible for initializing the hardware and booting the operating system. OFW also handles boot security so that it will only load "offical" OLPC operating systems.
- Wireless Firmware
- The wireless firmware is software that controls the operation of the wireless radio. It is downloaded into the wireless radio by the operating system.
external storage device terms
- Jumpdrive
- A small, external storage device that plugs into one of the USB ports on a computer. They can store between 16MB (enough to hold several music files) up to 4GB (enough to hold several high quality full-length movie files) and a wide range in between. Jump drives are easily purchased at any electronic store starting as low as $5 to $10.
- Thumb drive
- see jump drive
- USB drive
- see jump drive
- USB Stick
- see jump drive
- Memory Stick
- see jump drive
sugar
- dual-tone
- see terms for the outer case;
- home view
- a view of what activities you are running, and how much memory they take—the starting view on the laptop;
- group view
- a view of your friends with whom you are working on shared projects;
- neighborhood view
- a view of who is sharing the network with you (mesh or otherwise) and what activities are being shared there;
- taskbar
- the bottom bar of the frame;
activities
- Activity
- a Sugarized application that can have an icon in the taskbar;
- bundle
- (also activity bundle, content bundle, collection)
content
- library
- content bundle
- collection
- book
linux commands and entities
- man
- sudo
- root
- (as in the user)
- rpm
Power options
- human power
- solar power
- multi-battery charger
- power strip
- hand crank
- pulley system
- XOctoPlug
Security
- BitFrost
- the OLPC security platform.
- Rainbow
- Rainbow implements the isolation shell implicitly described in the Bitfrost security specification. This means that it isolates activities (and eventually system services) that it is asked to run from one another and the rest of the system.
- Activation
- In order to use your laptop for the first time (or after a "reflash" of the operating system), it must be unlocked by an activation key.
- Activation key
- The key that unlocks the laptop
- Developer key
- If the boot firmware sees a developer key, it makes the XO laptop work just like any ordinary PC-style laptop, in the sense that it will let you interrupt the boot process and enter commands; and it will try to boot and run any program you supply to it, no matter whether the OLPC organization has tested or signed it. (The laptop also works this way if its firmware security is disabled.)
- Signed/unsigned builds
- OLPC produces both "signed" and "unsigned" builds of the operating system. Signed builds are release builds that have undergone QA testing. Unsigned builds are development builds, which are used for testing new features and bug fixes. You cannot run an unsigned build in your laptop unless you have either a developer key or security has been turned off (as in the case of the G1G1 laptops).
- key generation
- The process of generating both activation and developer keys
- lease
- When a laptop is activated, the activation has an expiration date. The period between activation and expiration is the lease period. The lease period is determined during the key-generation process; the laptop can be reactivated after the lease has expired.
- passive kill
- currently unsupported, this is a mechanism that uses the lease mechanism to require laptops to periodically ask for a renewed activation. Without the renewal, the lease will expire and the laptop will be locked.
- active kill
- currently unsupported, this is mechanism where by a laptop that has been reported stolen can be remotely shutdown when it connects to the Internet.
- virus
- malware
Documentation and support
- Wiki
- IRC
- Email list
Localization
- Pootle
- translation
- keyboard
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