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[sola]

I recommend Teapot's Ubuntu Intrepid release. I installed it yesterday and seems to be working fine (I also used the previous version). It even includes power management (suspend button works and the agressive power saving is optionally emulated by one of Teapot's scripts).

The install instructions are short and straight forward, so newbies will be OK with it.

From the comments above, it is light-years ahead of Fedora10.

I am using Ubuntu on all of my machines and Tepots Intrepid on the XO is a nice addition to the family.

I recommend using Opera on Intrepid since it is snappier than Firefox.

Today, I am migrating all of my ebooks (under FBReader) to Intrepid and after that I think Sugar will not be booted for a while.

[mavrothal]

Last night I tried the "final" version of the FC10 Live CD installation that OnDisk is supposedly going to ship on their SD cards.

Is this the general use i686-Live-CD that can be downloaded from here http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/ or a special XO specific spin?
The https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10_On_XO  site has nothing downloadable that is XO specific. Do I miss something or indeed the general use i686-Live-CD is to be used by the XO and is installed in the On-disk SD card?

Now regarding Linux alternatives for the XO (for the newbies like me), DebXO is the easiest to install and the most complete, but requires some more Linux knowledge and still have some issues. I believe that version 0.5, if power management  is fixed as planed, would be very usable with minimal Linux knowledge.
Teapot's Ubuntu Hardy and particularly the brand-new  Intrepid are the easiest to use and well supported, but require a bit more fiddling with the installation - mostly Hardy. The drawback is that both Hardy and Intrepid depend on the stock Sugar kernel with its limitations, though Teapot promises kernel updates for Intrepid.
Maybe On-disk people should look at these directions for  XO Linux alternatives. Besides, Sugar is build on Fedora and with time will get more of the full Fedora functionality.

[XOpher]

How do I get additional software I load to "stick"? I've used the installer and Yum in Terminal, but upon reboot my work is gone?

As far as the hourglass scenario, I can agree. What worries me somewhat is the higher profile nature of the g1g1 through Amazon and the buggy nature of this SD OS option.

I really want the g1g1 to succeed in terms of Amazon's distribution power (compared to g1g1 2007 which had all kind of distribution problems.) We shall see 

[hkrieger]

I found the live Fedora 10 to be too slow.  However, I can use the 4G
Extreme III SD in my digital camera.

Herman
www.efn.org/~hkrieger

[gday]

Observations - received SD card on Dec 15th. I am not an expert with Linux but grew with the DOS world and can use terminal to some degree.

I am having "mixed success" with the Fedora 10 SD card. Sometimes it works and sometimes it fails. I have had several errors that are only resolved by turning off the power.

The 'gnome-settings-daemon' has failed a few times and I have found no way to solve it. I re-boot and it sometimes works again. Without it I cannot change Appearance it seems and settings do work every time on re-booting.

I was wondering I could rest everything to the original defaults but have not found a way to do it.  I saw a posting mentioning updates to Fedora but have not found the site where they can be downloaded.

Firefox works OK although settings for the font size do not seem to stay after a reset.

The load time is VERY long. The email seems to work quite well. I will carry on tinkering but I would be very grateful if anyone knows:
a) answers to any of the problems above
b) if there is a place where this particular product is being discussed more widely -  a forum?