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

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Mon Jan 11 07:10:33 EST 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 13:00, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 12/28/2009 09:14 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks and happy testing!
>> --Sebastian
>>
>> P.S.: Enjoy your holidays!
>
> First: Thanks very much Sebastian for taking care of providing us with
> such a nice testing environment. A few comments after a short test:
>
> * Soas:
> - evince-djvu is not installed, djvu-based books can not be shown
> - the user name is set to 'Liveuser' and the option to set is not shown
> on first boot. There was this change in latest Sugar:
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/5245f687227e29cde9bd679b9e3ca892180a5895
> We need to set the gconf option to "Disabled"

Maybe we forgot to set a default?

Regards,

Tomeu

> * Sugar:
> - switching activities by using tab is broken
>
> * Activities:
> - Write has problems drawing the canvas
> - Espeak does not start: voice.py syntax error
> - Clock: error in method draw_simple_background
> - Get IA Books: option djvu always selected, can not be changed
>
>
> Regards,
>    Simon
>
> PS: Yay, the hotdog is back! :)
>
>
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