December 2008 Archives

C'est La Vie: chapter 2, being late. a sugar spin.

By Sebastian Dziallas on December 27, 2008 12:00 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Well, I hope everybody has a good time over the holidays, as I'm a bit late with my "Merry Christmas" post. But nevertheless, this post is about an announcement I should have done a week or so ago.

As some of you may (and some not) have noticed, there's is new version of the Fedora Sugar Spin around. So what's the cool new stuff we're propagating?

  • We're now basing the spin on F10 + the latest updates (at the date of composing the image).
  • There's a whole bunch of new activities around, just waiting to be tried out. Make sure to give 'em a try!
  • An exciting technology called sugar-presence-service has been integrated. It allows a kind of connection between sugar users in their neighborhood view - Greg has an interesting blog post about it here.
You're still not convinced? Well, you might want to have a look at The Coding Studio's screenshot tour (which has been creating some time ago) to get an overview.

So what are you waiting for? You can give it a test drive by getting it from here.

Happy Holidays everybody!

C'est La Vie: chapter 1, exploring the solar system

By Sebastian Dziallas on December 7, 2008 12:00 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Somebody wrote recently quite a few interesting posts on his blog. Sorry, I somehow couldn't resist stealing your heading... :)


Well, Fedora 10 is out - and it's great! I'm somewhat late with this post, but nevertheless, I wanted to take the chance to make you aware of the new spins, whose availability has recently been announced.

So what do we've here? You can now finally get your hands on the first, official product for which the Fedora's Education SIG was responsable. The Education Math Spin is available for download from the spin tracker.

As the name already states, it's focussed on educational, mainly mathematical purposes and therefore contains a number of useful packages, including wxMaxima, Macaulay2, applications from the kdeedu package, and others. For more information, please consider the spins feature page.

And thanks to those, who made this possible! It has been a long way since we started working on this, and we're not yet done, but it's a beginning. If you're interested in joining our Special Interest Group, please add your name to the wiki and contact either me or e-mail directly to the mailing list.

Anyway, feedback is greatly appreciated!
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