Manuals
The OLPC Manual is available as the Help activity for 8.2 and is also online at http://laptop.org/manual
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Manuals
Emerging manuals
Check out our DRAFT "Class Acts" guide for community deployment resources.
See other Community Documentation Projects.
Recent 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 generalized guide to a large-scale deployment of one laptop per child.
- Sdenka Salas - The XO Laptop in the Classroom
- The lesson ideas in this book show many ways the XO and Sugar interface can be put to work in classrooms.
- Activity Handbook
- A software developer's guide for creating software for Sugar
- Sugar Almanac
- A detailed guide for developers to the APIs in Sugar.
- Laptop overview
- A short overview of the XO laptop's hardware and software features.
Manuals for earlier releases
- getting started guide
- Beautiful, interactive pages that describe XO hardware and the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release. As of November 2008, http://laptop.org/start redirects to this
- 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
- Nortel LearnIT Using the XO
- History
- The OLPC Wiki's Simplified user guide
- Migration status and diff from FM?
- XO Guide
- History?
- Demo notes
