Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

It's about time: You can now get a special SoaS version for your XO-1! That's cool, right? It basically means that you can now enjoy the coolest Sugar bits on a F11 base system, while stuff like power management is working again.

Well, where's the catch? It's still a preview. An early preview. So it might have some issues (please read this). And to install it, it will overwrite the XO's flash. So you should probably move important data elsewhere.

But wait, installing it - how does this work?

You'll need to grab (and put on your USB key or SD card) these two files:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/xoimages/devxo-1.crc
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/xoimages/devxo-1.img

Done? Great! What's next? Just plug that in your XO and press escape before it boots. Then type in either copy-nand u:\devxo-1.img or copy-nand sd:\devxo-1.img, depending on whether you used a key or a card. That's it. It will copy the new image to the NAND and once it's finished, you can already boot it. Note that you'll obviously need to have OLPC's latest firmware and an unlocked XO for that.

So, please give this a try and let us know what you think! Fedora's OLPC mailing list, but also Sugar Labs' Devel list might be a good guess for that...