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Download GentooXO-2.0

GentooXO is offered both as a peer-to-peer and direct download. If you would like to mirror GentooXO, please contact me.

GentooXO-2.0 release date: April 26th, 2010

Peer-to-peer download

• To download GentooXO, open this file with your torrent client program. Once you have downloaded it, please continue seeding until you have a share ratio of at least one.

After download, verify file integrity:

Code Listing: verify file integrity

md5sum gentooxo-2.0.tar.gz sha1sum gentooxo-2.0.tar.gz

The information returned must match this:

Torrent hash: 4af69a924a77ad425ae9f7882fd9611654fa5e55

md5sum gentooxo-2.0.tar.gz e815b7fae9af200fff6ec52d7b904bbe
sha1sum gentooxo-2.0.tar.gz 3fac5634e5b57f5e80f685d2cc4e8069b61f59dd

Proceed with installation.

Release notes for GentooXO-2.0

• The /boot/olpc.fth file is set to boot off of a USB key, so if that is what you are using you don't need to change the olpc.fth file.

• Everything (sound, microphone, camera, WIFI) works and is up to date to April 26th, 2010.

• If you are at an open access-point when you boot up, you will have WIFI immediately, otherwise you need to edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file and add your access-point key or add your access point using the WPA Supplicant Administration GUI (wpa_gui).

• wpa_gui will start at the default-user (user: olpc password: olpc) Gnome log in.

• You will need to type in the root password: olpc to let the Wireless Access Point management software run.

• There have been a few times where I had to restart eth0 (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart) for it to work though but be patient, even when it works, it takes some time to log in to the access point. Once logged in, WIFI throughput is very good.

• I've been able to play mp4-encoded videos of HDTV tv shows with MPlayer and it works well enough.

What doesn't work:

• There are no icons on the desktop nor in the menus. I believe this will be fixed by the next version of the Geode video driver. Update: CONFIRMED Thanks to the work of the Geode development team, the current version of the video driver fixes this bug and runs very stably on the OLPC! Thanks Mart! Thanks Martin-Éric!
  
  To apply the update run the following as root:
  
  emerge --sync --quiet
  emerge -v x11-drivers/xf86-video-geode
  
  This should fetch and install version 2.11.8 (or better) of the driver.
  
  This will require you to log out and log back in to load the new driver.

• Sound: You need to run the alsamixer command in a terminal to unmute the soundcard. You must unmute the Master and PCM channels.

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Previous Versions

GentooXO-1.0

Peer-to-peer download

• To download GentooXO, open this file with your torrent client program. Once you have downloaded it, please continue seeding until you have a share ratio of at least one.

Direct download from mirror site(s)

• http://download.libexec.de/gentooxo/gentooxo-1.0.tar.gz

After download, verify file integrity:

Code Listing: verify file integrity

md5sum gentooxo-1.0.tar.gz sha1sum gentooxo-1.0.tar.gz

The information returned must match this:

md5sum gentooxo-1.0.tar.gz ae310353442bd0fcb3ef9bba3a8c0238
sha1sum gentooxo-1.0.tar.gz 3f706535d880bc16d204c9a89638165c905810f2

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To know more about this project, write to me at info@gentooxo.org.