C\C++ & SDL

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

> Development using C, C++, and SDL, is already supported by the
> underlying Fedora packages.  A student need only install these packages
> and begin to use the tools.  All the IDEs available in Fedora are
> available on an OLPC XO, and the installation is trivial compared to the
> task of writing a non-trivial C program.
> 

Thanks James for this information.

Somebody like me with poor Linux skills finds the installation of packages quite daunting though I am capable of writing some (fairly trivial) C programs.

It might be worthwhile providing a C IDE as an XO bundle at ASLO. It doesn't need to be Sugarised, like the Gnumeric Sugar launcher, and could keep its non-sugar menus and file system.

Tony