[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Major Changes in the latest Snapshot

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Hi everybody,

I'm very happy to announce the availability of a new SoaS snapshot, 
today now especially with the latest Sugar release 0.85.3, freshly off 
the press (thanks to all the devs & packagers here)!

This release includes a number of new features, awaiting to be tested!

* SoaS switches to a new distribution method for Fructose activities, 
meaning that now *all* activities can be directly updated from 
activities.sugarlabs.org without issues.

* Official appliance creation has been resumed (we ship a zipped .vmdk 
file which should be readable by all major virtualization products). The 
appliance includes now all activities, all locales, and even sample 
content - just like the original SoaS!

* This release introduces a new display manager, to be more specific 
olpc-dm, which should auto-login the user, even after restarting Sugar 
from the control panel. No blue login screen anymore!

* SoaS ships now with capabilities of using sudo - by default!

* The SoaS build date will from now on be clearly printed in the control 
panel (in the "About my Computer" screen).

That's it so far. Now here are the links:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908021950.iso

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas3-20090802.zip

Known bugs include a killed X server each time an activity saves to the 
journal. Please report all other issues you encounter (and note the 
build date when opening a ticket please)!

Thanks and happy testing,
--Sebastian for the SoaS Team