Hi John,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:03 PM, John Wagg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnwagg@btinternet.com">johnwagg@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'm an ageing developer looking for ways to use my skills for more useful purposes than I have so far in my career. I've been playing with various bits of OLPC-XO to get more idea of where I might get involved. I'm not progressing very fast at the moment. I've tried emulation of XO on my windows machine. It seems to work but doesn't give me anything that seems very useful at the moment. I don't have any activities available. What would people recommend as the best way to get some experience of playing around with XO? Should I persevere with emulation? Should I try to get hold of an XO machine? All advice gratefully received. I hope I'm not emailing zillions of people. Don't all tell me to get lost if I am.</td>
</tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div> <br>Welcome. I believe that the Sugar On A Stick release, which is available from here <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry</a>, is probably the best place to get started as it comes with 40 odd activities to play with. You can either install it to a USB stick and boot you computer off it or run it in an emulated environment such as vmware. Let me know how you get on.<br>
<br>Peter<br></div></div>