Release of OLPC i386 CD 8.2 is based on a child-focused graphical interface called Sugar, a Fedora 9 Linux operating system and OLPC customized implementations of core software including power management, wireless drivers, NAND flash file system, Open Firmware, and other components. Major new features: an updated Home view and Journal with new options for finding and organizing activities; an enhanced Frame for collaborating with other XOs and switching between running activities; a graphical Control Panel for setting language, network, and power preferences etc...

About OLPC

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an initiative to build a low-cost laptop computer with a pre-installed operating system and applications designed for children in developing countries. The operating system is a Linux-based solution, a heavily customised edition of Fedora Core with a special graphical user interface called Sugar. Among applications, the system includes a web browser built on Xulrunner, a simple document viewer based on Evince; the AbiWord word processor, an RSS reader, email, chat and VOIP clients, a multimedia authoring and playback environment, a music composition toolkit, graphics toolkits, games, a shell, and a debugger.