[Techteam] 12.1.0 devel build 1 released, for XO-1.5 and XO-1

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org> wrote:
> Excellent! Thanks for this!
>
> I am pretty worried with the removal of gnome fallback -- I can't see
> sw rendering being usable on XO-1, and probably a lot of magic will be
> required for a bearable user experience on XO-1.5.

I don't think its the case for F17, but likely will be in the future.

> If we were to ship a couple of XO-1 and XO-1.5s to people involved in
> this fallback mode removal, who should we ship it to?

I'll have a poke to find out the best.

Peter

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The "Throw away your televisions" release.
>>
>> This is the first build on our way to what will ultimately become the
>> 12.1.0 release. Its based on rawhide and the testing I did on my
>> XO-1.5 provides all basic working functionality including Sugar,
>> GNOME, networking, camera etc. gnome-shell with associated bits to
>> test running it using SW rendering isn't included in this release but
>> I'll work to get this in place for the next build.
>>
>> Some of the details of this release are:
>> - Fedora rawhide (it will become Fedora 17)
>> - Sugar 0.95.1
>> - initial patches for NetworkManager 0.9
>> - gnome 3.3.1
>> - kernel 3.x
>> - systemd plus olpc dependant services migrated thanks to dsd
>> - Surf included initially until we get a working Browse
>>
>> Known issues:
>> - 3G modems currently don't work within Sugar
>> - Browse doesn't work
>> - Read doesn't work
>> - Help doesn't work
>>
>> Download from:
>> http://build.laptop.org/12.1.0/os1/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Techteam mailing list
>> Techteam at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/techteam
>>
>
>
>
> --
>  martin at laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
>  - ask interesting questions
>  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
>