[IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Mike Lee wrote:
> This is another baby step that's keeping my excitement growing.

Hi Mike,

thanks a lot for your testing efforts!

> I installed your new snapshot on a 4 gig USB drive using Fedora's 
> Liveusb-creator. I then I did quick boot tests on the following, which 
> all booted up:
> 
> Asus Eee PC 701 (no wifi, cramped screen layout)

This wifi issue is interesting, because according to [1], it should work 
out of the box on Fedora. Nevertheless, I think we should really try to 
get it working...

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc

> Intel Classmate 2 Celeron (wifi worked and I was able to use Browse, 
> cramped screen layout)
> 
> Intel Classmate 3 Convertible (no wifi, screen much roomier)

I tried to find some information concerning the wifi chip they're using 
on their website, but the PDF files I came across weren't really 
helpful: "10/100 MB Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b/g (WiFi)" doesn't tell me a 
lot. If anybody knows what chip they're using exactly or even can tell 
me the driver it requires, please let me know.

> On all: the cursor was invisible to start. It appeared after I navigated 
> to the Journal and opened the detail view of an entry. Speak didn't work.

Ok! So this is still occuring; I don't know, what might be causing this, 
but Marco stated that he noticed this in jhbuild, too.

> While I had wifi on the Classmate 2, I downloaded Walter's TAPortfolio 
> 17. It seemed to load fine on all three machines, but the bottom part of 
> the tabbed palette was clipped on the EeePC and Classmate 2 making some 
> of the pieces impossible to retrieve.
> 
> Well, that was what I did in an hour. Looking forward to testing more.
> 
> Mike
> 
> http://www.olpclearningclub.org

--Sebastian

> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com 
> <mailto:sebastian at when.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everybody,
> 
>     after some time, we've another snapshot of soas-1 ready for testing! You
>     can now grab it directly from [1].
> 
>     So what has changed in comparison to the last one?
> 
>     * size improvements everywhere - the whole image has been slimmed quite
>     a bit and is now just around 350 MB!
> 
>     * sugar-write works now out of the box - yay! thanks to alsroot for
>     making this possible.
> 
>     * your favorite activities have been included, updated and some new were
>     also added: for example, you can now directly check out the InfoSlicer
>     activity [2] using SoaS.
> 
>     * Sugar has been updated; Simon is working on the RPMs of the latest
>     release, so expect another snapshot soonish!
> 
>     * Gnash has been recently included - please check whether it works
>     for you!
> 
>     For your notice, there's a known bug with regard to the mouse cursor
>     occurring from time to time. If you come across it or can help with
>     fixing it, that would be really appreciated.
> 
>     Please help us and report also any other issues you may encounter!
> 
>     Thanks and happy testing,
>        --The SoaS Team
> 
>     [1] http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas-200902201251.iso
>     [2] http://sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/InfoSlicer
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