Re: OLPC

2008-04-10 Thread Thomas H. George
this? I have one of these from the > > GIGO program. It's full of kiddie toys which I would like to replace > > with something more useful to me. > > > > Thanks > > > www.en.forum.laptop.org > In the section Tips, Tricks and Tutorials see the thread How

Re: OLPC

2008-04-05 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
ull of kiddie toys which I would like to replace > with something more useful to me. > > Thanks > > Check this wiki out... A lot of information that might be useful to you. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/OLPC Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

OLPC

2008-04-05 Thread Peter Meldrum
I have heard that some people have installed Debian on the One Laptop Per Child machine Do you have any info or links to this? I have one of these from the GIGO program. It's full of kiddie toys which I would like to replace with something more useful to me. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
sic and play with it as well, their work center becomes > a real source of enjoyment. and at 100 bucks, no tragedy if it gets > ripped off or lost. Most school districts pay $50 and $60 for crappy > text books. > > While the OLPC folks are focused on the third world (a reall

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-06 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun January 6 2008, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? Not me but maybe some others here have.. > > 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 of

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread David
phillinux wrote: At 11:31 PM 1/5/2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? So back up. what allows Oo.o to run on your linux box now? An X-windows system. You don't even need a window

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread phillinux
At 11:31 PM 1/5/2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 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 li

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
so forth, but > >it's closer to what you want. > Part of this is believing in the project of putting a $100 laptop in > the hands of kids in the third world. Fair enough, but ... > BTW, there's a real difference between $100 and $299 The OLPC XO costs $280 for non-g

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread David
Scott Gifford wrote: phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found it easily from their Web site.

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Scott Gifford
phillinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found it easily from their Web site. Good luck, -S

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread David
phillinux wrote: At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: 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 li

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
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

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread phillinux
At 10:41 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: 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

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
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 t

Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread phillinux
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 u

Re: Debian Etch on OLPC Laptop

2007-11-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> Maybe consider buying the EeePc laptop and make a donation to the XO > fund? This way you get a more standard laptop that supports linux and > help the XO fund? > But I'm sure someone will work on XO/Linux, so maybe ask on an XO list? > -K > ps. I'm testing Sugar on my Ubuntu PC, it runs in a sec

Re: Debian Etch on OLPC Laptop

2007-11-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 12:10:45PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > The OLPC laptop can now be purchased in the U.S. and Canada for $399 (you are > actually buying two laptops and one goes to a child in a developing country). > Anyways I was considering this but

Debian Etch on OLPC Laptop

2007-11-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, The OLPC laptop can now be purchased in the U.S. and Canada for $399 (you are actually buying two laptops and one goes to a child in a developing country). Anyways I was considering this but I am not a big fan of the Sugar interface. I wanted to simply remove everything, install