soas63xo impressions

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Disclaimer:  I am not asking for help;  I'm sharing my experiences.


Ran with soas63xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1.  Many of the 
difficulties with previous SoaS builds were still present.

My Settings -> Date&Time - as soon as (to move the selection off UTC 
to my timezone) I pressed (cursor was on vertical scrollbar) the 
left mouse button, sugar crashed.  [Sugar also crashed when I 
clicked in the horizontal scrollbar in Browse.]

Speak did not attempt to speak.  [Note:  The volume control in Frame 
came up as 'Muted' - I think that's the wrong initial default.]

Record did not even launch.

Browse came up with its display window size significantly exceeding 
the physical size of the XO screen.

'rpm -q kernel' shows *two* kernels applied to soas63xo.

One nice thing is that Frame now shows one icon (instead of two) for 
setting up a local (under the tree) network.

One less nice thing for me is the new toolbar design, as exemplified 
in Turtle_Art.  It was nice to see the "Title" always in the toolbar 
- to remind "what am I on this screen for".  Now that the user needs 
to hover (a particular spot) to see this reminder, Sugar seems less 
  helpful.


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*All* the builds-for-XO1 coming from sugarlabs.org are now 
f12-based.  As far as I know, the OLPC plan is to start shipping 
XO-1.5 systems from the factory with f11-based software.  I myself 
don't believe many XO users intend to immediately replace the 
(f11-based) software on their system with f12-based software (that 
they currently have to install themselves).  From the point of view 
of users running an XO, the SugarLabs software is now on a "fork".


mikus

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