[Sugar-devel] Latest school-ready image for XOs?

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'll be spending an afternoon at the Austria OLPC / Sugar pilot project
> school on Thursday and was now wondering what the latest "school-ready"
> software image for use on the XO-1s there was.
> Looking around it seems that OLPC's 802 image (which they're using atm) is
> still the way to go with the only real alternative being running SoaS from
> the internal NAND. However according
> to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC that
> would mean dealing with either the "no sound / no automount of USB drives"
> issue (for the older images), a lack of camera support or consistent
> windowing issues (all of which I pretty much consider a no-go).
> As always all comments and suggestions are welcome, especially if I missed
> something (it's been pretty busy around here lately)...

When doing the UK pilot I desperately wanted to use the latest 0.84
release but in September Strawberry had issues with at least the
camera, the Record activity and some of the TamTam stuff. Since then
I've fixed the issue with csound on Fedora 11 which means with updates
that will work (but not the base image) but there's still issues with
the Camera and Record and I'm not sure what testing has been done with
things like Measure using the MIC port with sensors.

Unfortunately at the moment the 802 release is still the best.

Regards,
Peter