April 2009 Archives

The Sugar on a Stick development moves on and we're now in the process of gathering and evaluating feedback. And so we need your help! You can help a lot by providing us with information on which hardware you used SoaS and how it worked out. We've been working on getting this as easy as possible, so here's how to do it:

• Grab the latest snapshot (not the beta release).
• Prepare your key and boot into SoaS.
• Go to the terminal and call as root smoltSendProfile.
• If you want to, please submit your profile URL in our wiki.

Note: These snapshots are currently not being considered stable. For a more stable solution, please refer to our recent beta release.

Work on SoaS continues and we have a new image based on the latest Rawhide ready. It is the first series of snapshots we are going to provide, as we approach our final release. Here is the announcement with the links.

The word is out. We've recently announced the availability of our first beta release of SoaS! Now here's the press release. And the release notes.

I'm really happy with how everything evolved during the development cycle and wanted to thank all the people, who did the great work to make this possible!

You know, it's still a beta. It might have some rough edges, but we also need all your help to test it. So after you downloaded it, please give it a try and e-mail us with your thoughts. A good place to direct feedback to is for example our IAEP mailing list.

Finally, this is the direct link: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-beta.iso

I recently came across this impressive video, which was an entry for the "We're Linux" contest run by the Linux Foundation.
 
http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3771567&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=

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As the beta versions of the different spins for F11 have recently appeared here, you might want to head over and check for example our Education Spin out.

• the Sugar desktop with all it's activities and collaborative features
• or the Xfce desktop, to which we added education related apps

Finally, it's getting spring over here. Just great to sit on the patio and watch the blue sky... :)

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