Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

[Adam Holt]

Courageous Tony, speaking up for the uncountable voiceless around the world
keeping XO-1s in operation, long after their stated 5-year design life.

In Haiti as in other places, derivatives of Release 12.1.0 have been found
to be a genuine lifeline for XO-1s, with Releases 13.* too slow for
teachers and students quite vocal about classroom usability.  While in
Haiti and the Contributors Program we use http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HaitiOS
based on 12.1.0, awareness that both Fedora 17 (underlying 12.1.0) and
Fedora 18 (underlying 13.*) have been End-of-Life'd during the past year (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life) is "consoled" by the fact the
vast majority of such XO-1s are used purely offline, immune from Internet
attacks for now.

XO-1 youth planetwide will remain silently and overwhelmingly offline, but
their needs {12.2.0, HaitiOS, Jon Nettleton has similar ideas??} should not
be forgotten until 2020 -- if not beyond?  James Cameron and Nathan Riddle
are just some of the many who've kept these vital XO-1 communities purring,
long after the self-indulgent "progress machine" has forgotten Earth Day,
moving on to short-life-cycle "planned obsolescence" hardware that does not
survive this eBay community ecosystem test:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist

*Thank you new contributors and old for your truly priceless ongoing
assistance 7 years after mass production began Nov 2007 ! !*


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> Hi, James
>
> It would also be very helpful to have a release 12.2.0 for the XO-1. This
> release would incorporate
> the libertas patch and correct the firmware version. Perhaps the
> ds-backup.sh and ds-backup.py could
> be replaced with versions that correct the reported problems. If
> politically acceptable, this could also be shown on the release page as the
> recommended  alternative for use with the XO-1.
>
> Tony
>
> On 06/12/2014 06:00 PM, devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:26:00 +1000
>> From: James Cameron<quozl at laptop.org>
>> To:devel at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1
>> Message-ID:<20140612052600.GF13823 at us.netrek.org>
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>>
>> Announcing our next release cycle:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.1
>>
>> Goal is to add hardware support for the new SIV121C camera sensor, and
>> include wireless performance fixes published since 13.2.0.
>>
>> Scope is restricted to Open Firmware, and kernel.
>>
>> -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>>
>
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