For those who missed Simon Schampijer and Gary Martin's beautiful Sunday
presentation of the imminent OLPC Release 10.1.3, with these guys
calling in all the way from Berlin and Scotland -- you truly missed out!!
RECAP: Expect a/the near-final Release Candidate of v10.1.3 here in the
coming ~24hrs or so:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation
BETTER YET: Final release is likely prior to Christmas! As the new
school year starts in South America in not-so-many weeks/months!
All the more reason to dive in testing these great new features
a.s.a.p., requested by real-world deployments in South Americans
especially -- using this gorgeous page Simon has put together explaining
(A) dandy new stuff and (B) how you can help:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/10.1.3/Testing
Even Richard's electrical power tracking is there so you can evaluate
solar electricity effectiveness etc :)
BEST OF ALL: Simon's thoroughness and explanations above are truly
inspiring. Notably his particular interested in creating a smooth ride,
friendly and backwards-compatible for teachers who've made backups of
kids' Journals onto USB sticks, using prior versions like Sugar .82
derivatives such as http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1 etc.
Kindly do him a favor and give this a go! Posting your data-upgrade
results to the wiki above, no matter how cleanly your/kids' portfolios
upgrade to v10.1.3's based on Sugar .84.
Just one more example: we talked a lot about the "Mesh Networking" being
replaced by Ad-Hoc Networking going forward, based on
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Ad_hoc_Networking and how this can
in fact work with XO-1s and XO-1.5s all under the same tree! Thanks to
the new "Mayan Notation" symbols for Channels 1, 6 and 11 you (and
hopefully the masses ;) will soon see in your Neighborhood View. If
anybody can please provide tailored screenshots to Luke who's about to
release the brand new http://laptop.org/start that'd be *awesome*, as
he's on the verge of publishing our 99%-done polished results from this
spring's DC doc sprint, around these 2 pages especially:
http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/connecting.shtml
http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/neighborhoodview.shtml
PS Caryl, Nancie, Christoph & all the others on Sunday's call can help
explain if you get stuck! During the call I myself meant to ask how
exactly Release 10.1.3 compares to
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose, and how they might co-evolve
together/apart? But time ran out as v10.1.3 filled up the whole hour,
so keep up the great work as in the end we have a great topic to ponder
for next time :)
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