[SoaS] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
>> by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the
>> latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this
>> snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3.
>>
>> It's still based on F12 for stability reasons, though (this will change
>> in the development cycle). But it incorporates already a number of
>> significant changes which are part of the change to the SoaS v3 builds.
>>
>> The build is available here:
>>
>> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/soas-3-20091228.iso
>>
>> Please follow the Blueberry instructions to put it on your flash drive.
>>
>> You can even run it on your XO-1 from a flash drive (NAND installation
>> possibilities are being evaluated) by using liveusb-creator.
>>
>> Afterwards, plug it into your XO-1 and type: "boot u:\boot\olpc.fth"
>>
>> However, a known issue is (on the XO-1 only) that the X session tends to
>> crash when trying to scroll. Help with debugging this would be very welcome.

Hi Peter! ;)

> Given that this is only using upstream and sugar 0.86 is in Fedora 12
> is the 0.87.x components in their own repository? If so where is it
> :-P

Well... this was accomplished by doing a quick & dirty rebuild. Here's 
the repository: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/repositories/3/

Those are exactly the F13 packages, just rebuilt. As soon as we move on 
to using F13 as the base system, this repo will be nuked.

--Sebastian

> Regards,
> Peter
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