The OLPC Live CD SDK is a Linux distribution from Red Hat, based on Fedora Core, optimized for the One Laptop Per Child program.
The operating system of this laptop computer offers a variety of features and is backed up by several applications. It has a web browser created on Xulrunner and a basic document viewer that relies on Evince. Additionally, there is the AbiWord word processor, a built-in RSS reader, email, chat, and VOIP clients, alongside graphics toolkits, multimedia authoring, games, music composition tools, and a debugger.
The OLPC Live CD SDK package further includes a pared-down version of Fedora Core Linux as the operating system, with students given root access. It has a simple, proprietary web browser that's based on the Gecko engine used by Firefox and includes a word processor based upon AbiWord.
The computer system also features online chat and VOIP programs, as well as several interpreted programming languages in Logo, JavaScript, Python, Csound, and the eToys variant of Squeak. Furthermore, the product includes audio and video player software in Mplayer or Helix and a music sequencer that uses digital instruments called TamTam.
Overall, the OLPC Live CD SDK is an exemplary software package that provides the children of developing countries access to a low-cost laptop computer, alongside a sophisticated graphical environment and a vast array of software applications.
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