[Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Tim McNamara
<paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88
>> > for the XO-1. Our focus is stability and usability for deployments,
>> > although we're also attempting to merge a couple of low-risk features
>> > developed in Uruguay.
>> >
>> > Full details are here:
>> >
>> >  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Sugar-0.88_Notes
>>
>> Is F-11 still the base OS for this?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Just for my knowledge, does Fedora have an equivalent to Ubuntu's long-term
> support releases?

No

> Without thinking too deeply about the implications, it make sense (to me) to
> peg XO development to something that's stable over a few years. That way
> package versions etc will be widely known and consistent.
> /me reads [1]. Apparently not. Is there anyway to achieve
> something similar without needing to pay for RHEL, which is probably a bit
> of an overkill?

Well RHEL requires licensing, there's CentOS but the current release
of both of the aforementioned have a stable set of packages too old
for Sugar. RHEL-6 might well provide the stability we need but its not
out yet, and the associated CentOS release can be quite a bit delayed.

Its something that is being reviewed but as there is not official
RHEL/CentOS release yet we can't say when that will be.

Peter