Nostalgia-06-OLPC OS

OLPC

Web site: laptop.org
Origin: USA
Category: Education
Desktop environment: Sugar
Architecture: x86
Based on: Fedora
Wikipedia: One_Laptop_per_Child
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 13.2.11 | January 29, 2020
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OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) – an initiative to create low-cost laptops with a pre-installed operating system and a set of applications for children in developing countries.

The operating system in these machines is a modified version of Fedora Core, equipped with a special graphical interface called Sugar.

Along with the system, applications are pre-installed that enable work on the computer, such as:
– web browser based on Xulrunner
– simple document viewer based on Evince
– AbiWord word processor
– RSS news feed reader
– e-mail client, chat and VOIP client
– multimedia player
– tools for handling music, graphic files
– simple games
– etc.

OLPC OS    One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an initiative to build a low-cost laptop computer with a pre-installed operating system and applications designed for children in developing countries. The operating system is a Linux-based solution, a heavily customised edition of Fedora Core with a special graphical user interface called Sugar. Among applications, the system includes a web browser built on Xulrunner, a simple document viewer based on Evince; the AbiWord word processor, an RSS reader, email, chat and VOIP clients, a multimedia authoring and playback environment, a music composition toolkit, graphics toolkits, games, a shell, and a debugger.

Note: 

Only writer tool is available in Debian repository.

I was very keen on this distribution in the past.