DebXO for the XO laptop

The XO laptop was developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Two weeks ago the XO Software Release 8.2.0 was announced. This week the DebXO project has taken off, with the goal of providing a Debian-based alternative for the XO laptop. Work has been in progress for at least a couple of months, but versions 0.2 and 0.3 were announced this week.

As of this writing, Andres "dilinger" Salomon has released three versions, the debxo-latest symlink points to the latest release. According to the version 0.2 announcement DebXO has EXT3 images for booting from USB and/or SD; and while DebXO 0.1 only had a GNOME desktop, 0.2 includes KDE, LXDE, Sugar, Awesome and GNOME desktops. Version 0.3 provides some important bug fixes for problems found in 0.2.

This project is obviously still in its infancy, but it seems like a good start on an alternative for the XO laptop. If you have an XO and are interested in helping out you could start by testing the current versions. There is a git repository with the code, which has a web interface, or just use git clone to grab the code.

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