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

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Mon Jan 11 08:16:08 EST 2010


On 01/11/2010 01:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 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
Nope, the default is set to "system', which takes the name of the user 
account which is 'Liveuser" in this case.

Regards,
    Simon



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