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<h1>Specs: We are using components of the Linux operating system</h1>
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<p>We are using components from Red Hat's Fedora Core 6 version of the Linux operating system; we are tracking the main kernel fairly closely.</p>
<p>We will be supporting five programming environments on the laptop: (1) <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">Python</a>, from which we have built our user interface and our activity model; (2) <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Javascript" target="_blank">Javascript</a> for browser-based scripting; (3) <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/CSound" target="_blank">Csound</a>, a programmable music and audio environment; (4) <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Squeak" target="_blank">Squeak</a>, a version of Smalltalk embedded into a media-rich authoring environment; and (5) <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LOGO" target="_blank">Logo</a>. We are also looking into providing some support for Java and Flash.</p>
<p>Applications will include a web browser built on <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xulrunner" target="_blank">Xulrunner</a>, the run-time environment used by the Firefox browser; a simple document viewer based upon <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/" target="_blank">Evince</a>; the <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/AbiWord" target="_blank">AbiWord</a> wordprocessor, an <a href="http://penguintv.sourceforge.net" title="PenguinTV" target="_blank">RSS reader</a>, an email client, chat client, VOIP client; a <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines#Journaling" target="_blank">journal</a>, a wiki with WYSIWYG editing; a multimedia authoring and playback environment; a music composition toolkit, graphics toolkits, games, a shell and a debugger.</p>
<p>Libraries and plugins used by OLPC include <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/" target="_blank">Xul</a>, <a href="http://www.gtk.org/" target="_blank">GTK+</a>, <a href="http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox" target="_blank">Matchbox</a>, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar" target="_blank">Sugar</a>, <a href="http://www.pango.org/" target="_blank">Pango</a>, <a href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/" target="_blank">ATK</a>, <a href="http://cairographics.org/" target="_blank">Cairo</a>, <a href="http://x.org" target="_blank">X Window System</a>, <a href="http://avahi.org/" target="_blank">Avahi</a>, and <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/" target="_blank">gstreamer</a>.</p>
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