[Sugar-devel] Fedora 30 (Release Candidate 1) SoaS images ready for testing

[James Cameron]

Please confirm our instructions continue to be correct and sufficient for the most common use case;

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/fedora.md

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 06:08:08PM -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> 
> On 4/25/19 10:27 AM, Alex Perez wrote:
> 
>     Folks,
> 
>     Just under the wire, we have managed to get some critical Sugar on a Stick
>     issues fixed, which are now included in Fedora 30 SoaS images. I would like
>     to extend a very special thanks to Peter Robinson, who took time out of his
>     busy schedule to assist in getting the Fedora packages updated with the
>     necessary fixes and patches. Thank you, Peter. This will be the first
>     Fedora SoaS in several releases to have functional collaboration within
>     Sugar, and it is thanks to your work, as well as community testers who take
>     the time to test these new packages, and report back with the results.
> 
>     For those who would like to test ot use Fedora 30 Sugar on a Stick, Release
>     Candidate 1, you can download these ISO images, and use DD,
>     win32diskimager, or your preferred raw image writing utility to stick the
>     contents on a USB drive. Alternatively, these ISOs can be booted as a
>     Virtual Machine, using VirtualBox, Parallels, Hyper-V, and other
>     virtualization software.
> 
>     Here are your download links:
> 
>     For 32-bit machines: [1]http://bit.ly/Fedora-30-RC1-SoaS-32-bit (891
>     megabyte ISO)
>     For 64-bit machines: [2]http://bit.ly/Fedora-30-RC1-SoaS-64-bit (942
>     megabytes)
> 
>     Here is what's been fixed:
> 
>     * Sugar 0.113 is included by default
>     * Collaboration works out of the box
>     * Able to connect to jabber.sugarlabs.org when configured (this is related
>     to the fix for collaboration, thanks to James Cameron for this)
>     * A [3]patch/hotfix to 0.113, which resolves Sugar 0.113 starting up.
>     Special thanks to Rahul "Pro-Panda" Bothra for this contribution.
> 
> Thanks to all the contributors who made this happen.
> 
> Here is a preliminary  edit of the sugarlabs wiki to include Fedora_30 [1]
> 
> [1] [4]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_30#Fedora_30
> 
>     The final release of Fedora 30 is expected to be made between April 30th
>     and May 7th, depending on a number of factors. The F30 release schedule is
>     documented at [5]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/30/Schedule
> 
>     Regards,
>     Alex Perez
>     Sugar Labs Oversight Board Member
> 
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> References:
> 
> [1] http://bit.ly/Fedora-30-RC1-SoaS-32-bit
> [2] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/30_RC-1.1/Spins/x86_64/iso/Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-30-1.1.iso
> [3] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/a83257bcf791e237afb55ed37f04d776f0fd927b
> [4] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_30#Fedora_30
> [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/30/Schedule
> [6] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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