On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:59 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I have some very basic questions to ask. > > How can I purchase or get a copy of the finished laptop?
The laptop is certainly not finished yet and isn't expected to be until next year. There were a certain number of "developer boards", which are the bare circuit boards of electronics that are quite similar to the final machine, but not completely. These are being allocated via the process described here, although there aren't that many left: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program If you would like to apply for a board, please follow the directions there. HOWEVER, if you're just developing user-level applications for the OLPC, you don't really need a board. You can run the software environment (and develop against it) on your normal Linux laptop, as described here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar > I own a Christian software company and would like to write Bible-based > software/games for children specifically to run on this laptop. We (Zahn > Software) do outreaches to Mexico with the help of other ministries to > assist communities with food, water, clothes, and health all which have > schools nearby. It would be great if we (Zahn Software) would be allowed > to distribute software for this laptop so that children could get a > Bible-based education through interactive software run on these laptops. OLPC will be shipping a standard set of software on the laptops, but countries and/or schools may put whatever software they like on the laptop themselves. I'd recommend talking to your target markets to see if you can provide your software to children through them. > So, is there a way for religious based private organizations to > participate in the latop giveaway? Of course, using the same criteria as any other organization and/or individual who would like to participate. > My second question is what kind of Linux OS are you using and where can I > get a copy of it so that we can start programming in this env.? See the link above about Sugar. The shipped OS will be a subset of Fedora Core tailored to the laptop's hardware and constraints. At the moment I wouldn't recommend using the OS builds to develop with since you'd be limited to 512MB (unless you enlarge the default partition and have a larger drive lying around to put the image on). Note that the software environment is in high flux right now and will be for a while longer. This may make some of the development process obscure and a bit hard, but there are communication channels (and mailing lists) you can use for help until the process becomes much more documented. Dan > Thanks for your input. > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
