Thanks for all the advice, I've gotten ubuntu installed.
One OLPC question and one GTK question
OLPC: where exactly is the keyboard mapping file that would let me
change the behavior of the screen orientation button?
GTK Development::
gcc works (IE I can compile hello world)
python and pygtk
this will be different under ubuntu-on-XO,
I want to write some code that runs in Tablet mode and I need one more key.
So I want to disable the screen rotation.
Currently even under ubuntu it rotates the screen.
I'm a linux newbee so I have zero clue where to find the keymapping
file or
I subscribed to the dev list for some development advice for the OLPC.
My reason for using the OLPC is not to help in the developing world,
it because I'm working on a long term project in the Mojave Desert and
unit is robust and the display can be read in the noon day mojave sun.
The project is
