My apologies, I misunderstood your first post. You are of course right about the commands failing - this never occurred to me as I already had a ~/bin directory before I read the CrunchBang wiki article. I have updated my post accordingly.

My personal ...

I guess what I'm saying is that if someone tries to execute the commands as given and since there is no ~/bin folder by default, gets  error messages and the commands are not executed. So (s)he needs to generate the ~/bin folder first. In contrast /bin...

Thanks for your reply. The tilde character refers to your home directory, i.e. /home/<username> for most distros, /home/olpc in teapot's Ubuntu. Whenever you type this character in the terminal it is automatically resolved to that path; so the full pat...

Pretty nice!
However, the paths do not need the tidle (~) but plain /bin  and thus should be executed as sudo so sudo -s should be typed in the beginning of the process.

Pls edit so I can quote only one "solution" post

Thanks mavrothal.

I guess if it is possible to change resolution with DebXO, then it must be possible in Ubuntu also.  It might not be easy, but I might want to try that when I get some time.

*edit*   I was just reading further, and it seems that other...

I dunno if anyone has posted a video of Ubuntu Intrepid (optimized) running off this little laptop yet..  It'd be great to see how well it runs before I attempt this installation.

If anyone can upload a few vids on youtube of ya'll booting up and runn...

Preemptive apologies, Chrome and Chrome OS are different things and I have effectively thread-jacked.  Mod's could my above post be moved to a new Forum\Topic?

How soon would someone be experimenting with compiling a build of Google's Chrome OS (unveiled today) for the XO?

I can see folders for ARM here http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/ amon...

Hi,

The start up time for Sugarized Firefox is getting longer and performance slower.
I have cleared out browsing detritus as much as possible, but that did not help much.

Does anyone know how to Compact the SQLite files Firefox stores?
Does the XO's v...

Do an offline upgrade from a USB storage (Key/Pen drive) or SD card.
Follow directions here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0

Note that this process will COMPLETELY erase ALL files on...

The latest release of openSUSE 11.2 Edu Li-f-e is a customised variant of the Linux distribution aimed at education, specifically children and students, includes a number of Educational applications.

It features a choice of <a href="http://www.h-online...

see if this http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4600.0 may help

Hello and Help!

Our XO's battery light giving us a 4 yellow blink pattern.  Does this mean the battery is dead?

My best guess now is that the power connector is bad.  If I put pressure on the connection, it will start up.  The minute I let go, it dies....

I do not really know... but my understanding is that java applets do not "like" font changes because it can mess-up the layout of the applet.
The alternative (till more knowledgeable people come along) is to change screen resolution! This is  possible ...

Hi All,

Some time ago my wife (a language teacher) discovered a language learning program that's pretty neat to use.  But, at first it was Windows only, so I never tried it with my XO.  But, there has been a Java version that works great.... except fo...

Almost five years down the lane, Tanzania has not made any effort to instigate the [OLPC] project. The laptops are sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”. The ope...

OLPC's regional director for Oceania, Mr. Michael Hutak, said Fiji had ambitious plans to distribute 70,000 OLPC XO laptops in its schools commencing with a proposed roll-out to 2000 children in the first phase of the program in 2010.

"Fiji's planning ...

Hey Metal,

If you review my last few posts I described my recommended OHM install and attached a file, if you browse that archive it contains a folder for adjustment of the OHM features, that's the /etc/ohm/plugins.d directory.

Use any text viewer (MC ...

Where is the documentation for ohm. I didn't see a man page or any other installed documentation and ohm.freedesktop.org is completely empty. What if I wanted to change the way ohm behaves, like increasing the delay before the display dims. Somewhere o...