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The deployments' XO Operating System

Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 jointly developed by Activity Central, Paraguay Educa, Plan Ceibal and Sugar Labs in collaboration with the OLPC and Sugar community.

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

This is a development build targeted for use by multiple deployments worldwide. We do appreciate feedback and bug reports.

Hardware	OS Images	Size	Date
XO-1, without GNOME	os508dx.img os508dx.crc	411MB	Apr 1 2011
XO-1.5, without GNOME	os508dx.zd	339MB	Apr 1 2011

GNOME builds are currently unsupported. If you require GNOME for evaluation purposes in your deployment, please ask on the Dextrose mailing-list.

For more details on this release, see the Dextrose 2 pages (Change Log, Todo List).

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download both osXXXXX.img and osXXXXX.crc to the root directory of a USB stick
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing ESC repeatedly during boot
Type the command: copy-nand u:\osNdx2.img 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.

See also the detailed instructions.

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