XO Software is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO Laptop.

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.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A 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.
· An automated Software Update tool which finds the latest version of activities and updates them over the Internet.
· Integration with the School Server for backup of XOs and restore of files to the Journal as needed.
· New and updated translations for many languages.
· A new user manual shipped with the XO as an activity.
· Hundreds of bug fixes.