[Olpc-za] Small question !

[Morgan Collett]

On 8/21/07, Donald Klopper <donald.klopper at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is my first post on this group. Hi all!!
>
> A couple of things.
>
> 1. You don't need the OLPC to be able to "play around" with it. You can
> download the OLPC ISO and boot into it in VMWare (you should even be able to
> get your hands on an Appliance for VMWare). This is all legally free AFAIK,
> and I've done it, so if anyone needs help I can explain how to go about it,
> if you like. Currently I'm not very comfortable giving it to my kids to play
> with, I think they will be very confused. Maybe I just don't understand how
> it works myself, and that's why we need more people "playing around" with
> it!

It's certainly legally free, being Free Software/Open Source. The
operating system is based on Fedora 7, with lots of stuff removed and
lots of experimental code added...

Don't get the LiveCD image, that is apparently out of date. See the
following links for more on emulation - should work in VMWare or qemu
etc - and don't hesitate to ask if you are trying to get it running.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start

Regards
Morgan