[Sugar-devel] Release policy and upgrades of sugar on laptops

[Art Hunkins]

I would like to simulate the XO-1.5 on my XO-1, to see how my activities 
perform on the XO-1.5. (I'm particularly interested in how the fonts 
display.)

What are my options?

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Ball" <cjb at laptop.org>
To: "Urso Wieske" <uwieske at olpcdutchcaribbean.org>
Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Release policy and upgrades of sugar on laptops


> Hi Urso,
>
>   > Question: if version 0.84 is shipped with these laptops, is it
>   > possible to upgrade the XO to the version of the next release of
>   > April? Can someone tell me how this is done or where to get this
>   > information?
>
> There's some confusion between XO releases and Sugar releases here.
> Sugar releases happen every six months, and XO (OLPC OS) releases
> happen less often -- they aren't strictly time-based, but major
> releases have happened roughly once a year, and minor bugfix releases
> happen as they're needed.
>
> So, it's not the case that Sugar releases are incorporated into OLPC
> releases immediately.  (In fact, for the XO-1.5 we chose to use Sugar
> 0.84 even though Sugar 0.86 had been released before our final release
> happened, because we wanted a Sugar release that had seen more time
> for bugfixes.)
>
> You should talk with OLPC directly about how to handle your particular
> situation, but I expect that you'll need to update the machines with
> your translations when they arrive; we can give you some pointers on
> how to do that.
>
> - Chris.
> -- 
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
> One Laptop Per Child
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