New LiveBackup XO-LiveCD Release

[WolfgangRohrmoser at web.de]

A new release 080321 of the Livebackup XO-LiveCD is available at:

      http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd/build-695/

and mirrored in Germany at

      ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/

Main features and changes since version 080130:

   * better hardware support, based on linux kernel 2.6.24.3
   * based on LiveBackup Version 1.4.3
   * initial ASUS EeePC support (alpha)
   * new bootsplash and improved boot-error handling
   * playing chess and simulation of electronic circuits now
     works with gcompris
   * bug fixes, updates and new extra activities

This Live-CD project targets the main goals:

   * give children, students, teachers and parents
     the opportunity to participate and use the
     educational software on a common PC
   * demonstration of OLPC software to non-developers
   * for developers the CD provides an easy maintainable Live-System,
     which could be used to develop and test activities on the sugar desktop

Further information is available in the PDF document:

       ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080321.pdf

For discussion we invite you to join the mailing list:

   http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/livebackup-xo-cd


wolfgang