[Marketing] [SoaS] ANNOUNCE: Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong)

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hi Peter,

thanks a lot for the heads-up and your continued great work!

I can't wait to give Quandong a spin later today.

Cheers,
Christoph

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to announce Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong)
>
> There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of
> communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us
> new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all
> the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS
> v7 is based.
>
> Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release
> including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar
> development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been
> done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse
> and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add
> to.
>
> Some of the key new features of this release include:
> - Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1]
> - Massively improved x86 Mac support [2]
> - Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other
> improvements [3]
> - Return of Browse, now based on WebKit
> - The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks
> - Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel
> - An increase in default Activities by nearly 50%
>
> Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases
> including but not limited to:
> - Abacus 35 (GTK3)
> - Record 95
> - Physics 9
> - TurtleArt 138
>
> Newly added Activities include:
> - Browse 137 (GTK3)
> - Countries 33
> - Finance 7
> - GetBooks 11
> - Help 14 (GTK3)
> - Infoslicer 14
> - Labyrinth 12
> - Paint 43
> - Portfolio 21
> - Read 99 (GTK3)
>
> There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora
> repositories.
>
> The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases
> by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native
> Australian bushfood.
>
> You can download the release from the following link.
>
> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
>
> It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and
> is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora
> Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package
> tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum
> install @sugar-desktop".
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
> [2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes
> [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum
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