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The deployments' XO Operating System

Dextrose is a Sugar distribution that runs on XO laptops jointly developed by Activity Central in collaboration with OLPC and the Sugar community, with contributions from many deployments, mainly Paraguay Educa, Plan Ceibal and OLPC Australia.

Our focus is stability and usability in the classroom, but we've also merged some new features contributed by deployments and freelance contributors.

The current version is Dextrose 3; you can also check the evolution of the project at the Dextrose 0, Dextrose 1 and previous stable Dextrose 2 pages. Use the top menu in this wiki to get started with our distribution.

Installation

XO-1

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download both osXXXXX.img and osXXXXX.crc to the root directory of a USB stick or SD card.
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing (Esc) repeatedly during boot
Type the command: copy-nand u:\osNdx.img for a USB stick or copy-nand sd:\osNdx.img for a SD card followed by (enter)
Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "ok" prompt to return
Type the command reboot followed by (enter)
The XO will reboot, finish writing, reboot itself, and take you to the naming and color choice process
During the reboots, keep the charger connected to allow OFW to self-update

See also the detailed instructions.

XO-1.5

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download osXXXXX.zd to the root directory of a USB stick
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing (Esc) repeatedly during boot
Type the command: fs-update u:\osXXXXX.zd followed by (enter)
Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "ok" prompt to return
Type the command reboot followed by (enter)
The XO will reboot and take you to the naming and color choice process

See also the detailed instructions.

XO-1.75

The XO-1.75 is not supported at this time. Please contact us if you are planning to deploy Dextrose on XO-1.75.

Other netbooks

Please contact us if you need support for running Dextrose on non-XO hardware.

Using Dextrose in your deployment

We're happy to help other deployments produce their own OS images independently of us, thus exploiting the Freedom #1 provided by Free Software.

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 == The deployments' XO Operating System ==
-Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for XO laptops jointly developed by [http://activitycentral.org Activity Central], [http://paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay Educa], [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/ Plan Ceibal] and [http://www.laptop.org.au/ OLPC Australia] in collaboration with OLPC and the Sugar community.
+Dextrose is a Sugar distribution that runs on XO laptops jointly developed by [http://activitycentral.org Activity Central] in collaboration with OLPC and the Sugar community, with contributions from many deployments, mainly [http://paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay Educa], [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/ Plan Ceibal] and [http://www.laptop.org.au/ OLPC Australia].
-Our focus is stability and usability in the classroom, but we've also merged some
+Our focus is stability and usability in the classroom, but we've also merged some new features contributed by deployments and freelance contributors.
-new features contributed by deployments and freelance contributors.
 The current version is [[Dextrose/3|Dextrose 3]]; you can also check the evolution of the project at the [[Dextrose/0|Dextrose 0]], [[Dextrose/1|Dextrose 1]] and previous stable [[Dextrose/2|Dextrose 2]] pages. Use the top menu in this wiki to get started with our distribution.