On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? > > I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for > secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version > of open office running on that machine. > > Is the XO GUI Python based?? > Could Open Office run on it?? > DSL uses a lightweight GUI. Could that run on an OX and could it > support OpenOffice?? > > I guess the question I'm asking is, which is more possible: > 1. Getting Open Office to run on the existing XO OS & GUI or > 2. Could another GUI and apps be built on the XO kernel?? > > Does any of this make sense or is this a pipe dream?
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