[Dextrose] Dextrose 4 first development images ready

Rafael Ortiz rafael at activitycentral.com
Tue Nov 6 11:48:32 EST 2012


Hi.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ruben Rodríguez
<ruben at activitycentral.com>wrote:

> Coming from the joint effort of the Activity Central team, and with the
> sponsorship from the One Education project, we are proud to publish the
> first batch of Dextrose 4 images, that can be found here:
> http://build.activitycentral.com/DX4/
>
> Images for all XO1, XO1.5, XO1.75 and XO4 are available.
>
>
Congrats to all.

> This is of course based on the latest OLPC 13.1 Beta release, which means
> it  contains the following:
> - Linux 3.0.19 (3.5x on XO4)
> - Gnome 3.6 (fallback mode)
> - Sugar 0.97.9 with Dextrose patches, as packaged here:
> http://build.activitycentral.com/devel-rpms/
>
> Known bugs:
>
> * The activities selection is the upstream default (
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1) and will need some tweaking.
> Some activities fail to start.
>

Probably non-gtk3 ported activities (due to upstream limitations) will
fail, importantly:
Speak.
Maze
Tamtam.


> * Browse does not start, as a result of the previous statement.
>


I'm concerned about Browse are we using for these dx4 builds, new webkit
based versions like

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addons/versions/4024#version-145   ?







> * The wifi password window is not showed on WPA personal networks. You can
> login into GNOME to connect while we fix that).
> * At least on XO1.75, sound applications produce mostly noise and high CPU
> usage.
> * The main menu in the home screen appears all black (no text) sometimes.
>
> Thanks to everybody involved, in particular to Ajay for all the code
> refactoring and Santi for dealing with OOB. Now let's continue working to
> make this a great release!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Rubén Rodríguez
> CTO
> Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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