[sugar] A few questions.

Morgan Collett morgan.collett at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 06:05:06 EDT 2008


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:54, Christopher Sawtell <csawtell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greets,
>
> 1)  Is this the correct list to ask simplistic questions? If not could
> somebody please direct me to the correct list.
>
> 2)  As I live in NZ a genuine hardware XO is utter vapour ware for me,
> 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.

If you already run Ubuntu, I think running the latest sugar packages
would be the easiest route:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sucrose_0.82

> 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?

The Read activity is a PDF reader: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read

It's up to each deployment to choose their activities, but a PDF
reader is essential IMHO.

Regards
Morgan


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