I received my XO, the one laptop per child PC before Christmas and have had a bit of time to play with it. I am very impressed. It is very easy to do simple things with it. I attached to my home wireless network in about two minutes. The trick was to have my 128 bit password in hex. The cool thing was that it located my network graphically and after mousing over it all I had to supply was my hex password. This is much faster than getting there with a PC which is a much longer process to navigate through the software. Of course this capability is important if you want to have children communicate easily with each other. I also am very impressed with the built in camera - amazing that they can do this for $200! The unix terminal is nice and aside from the absence of man pages, it is great.
I am monitoring the mailing lists sporadically and will report gems here as I find them. Two first hints are a pictorial quickstart that you can browse in ten minutes can be found here. A more detailed description of some of the programs with additional pointers for detailed instruction can be found here. This second link has a lot more descriptive text and will take a while to get through especially if you follow the links.
That is it for now - later!
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