[sugar] A few questions.

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 01.09.2008 um 11:54 schrieb Christopher Sawtell:

> Greets,
>
> 1)  Is this the correct list to ask simplistic questions? If not could
> somebody please direct me to the correct list.

Sure, if it is Sugar-related. The emulation disk image question would  
be better directed at the "devel" 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.

Developers can request an XO anywhere in the world:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program

>
> 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?

Yes, see

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read

- Bert -