On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greets, > > 1) Is this the correct list to ask simplistic questions? If not could > somebody please direct me to the correct list.
An excellent place for getting started. No, we have no separate "newbies" list. We frequently put new user questions into a FAQ on the Wiki, and you are welcome to do so yourself. > 2) As I live in NZ a genuine hardware XO is utter vapour ware for me, Not necessarily. There are deployments being readied all over Oceania. > so I have to either use the sugar packages as published by the Ubuntu > folks, or to Install VirtualBox and run an image. The question is: > which road should I take? If you suggest the image in a VirtualBox > route, I would be grateful as to a suggestion as to which one, there > are _so_ many. I hope to run the XO apps. on a T41 ThinkPad. I run on all three routes, but I am well known not to be the average user. > 3) I am preparing a simplistic little "Counting Book for 21st Century > Children". So I need to know whether the standard XO file set has a > PDF reader as standard? I want to see your draft. (I have a degree in math, and I have been a classroom teacher at every level from preschool to graduate.) What tools are you using to create it? I would like to suggest building it as an interactive Etoys activity. We can get you programming assistance. > TIA > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar -- Silent Thunder [ 默雷 / शब्दगर्ज / شبدگر ج ] is my name, And Children are my nation. The Six Worlds are my dwelling place, And Truth my destination. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
