I believe the intent is to run most things on the OLPC from the web. But that's filtered by the government and school buying and distributing it. I know those developing it are humanists who have little use for faith based efforts.
Perhaps the easiest way to run something on it would be to develop a "running image" in Squeak (http://www.squeak.org) , the open source version of Smalltalk that runs on the OLPC. Smalltalk and Squeak save or persist their code and data for their applications in one single snapshot file of the running code (all objects). The VM is already on the OLPC. This is similar to how VM Ware saves a running image of an OS to a single file that can be resumed at any time on a PC with the proper VM. This lets your Smalltalk/Squeak application run identically on any PC and OS that has an interpreter, which is almost all of them. So, you can develop your Squeak Bible application on any Win, Mac, Linux PC and it will run on the OLPC. You can store almost any media/graphic file loaded in memory in the Squeak image and Squeak knows how to display/perform it as well (though the video codex available are limited). What do you think of Squeak?
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