Inside the OLPC XO: Software

In Peter Norton manner

• Goals
  • One Laptop Per Child, of course
  • Educational software based on Constructivism
  • No proprietary software
  • Free textbooks and content
• Overview
• Open Firmware
• XO Linux

Red Hat Fedora Rawhide 7

• Sugar
• Computer languages
  • FORTH for Open Firmware
  • Python in Pippy and activities
  • Turtle Art turtle graphics
  • Squeak Smalltalk in Etoys
  • CSound in TamTam
• Human languages
  • Writing systems: keyboard layouts, input method editors, rendering, printing
  • Localization
  • Language learning
• Activities
• Content
• Terminal
• Desktop
• Using the XO in education