Thanks Bryan! Can you add a link to activity testing results from the Release Notes page with this info? (<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes</a>)<br>
<br>It would be great for others to refer to this info when they download 702 and recent activities.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Kim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Bryan Berry <<a href="mailto:bryan.berry@gmail.com">bryan.berry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hey guys,<br>
<br>
Today I tested out almost of all of the activities on<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities" target="_blank">wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities</a> on build 702.<br>
<br>
I remember reading an e-mail from Kim Quirk asking folks to test<br>
installing the activities on build 702. I am posting my findings here in<br>
case it might be useful. You may already be aware of the problems I<br>
encountered.<br>
<br>
First I downloaded all of the activities from the wiki page. I didn't<br>
use any automated scripts or xo-get because bandwidth is quite poor at<br>
my location. I didn't test out activity sharing, hopefully will do that<br>
tomorrow or Friday.<br>
<br>
What didn't work:<br>
OurStories v.1-beta<br>
Mimic v.1<br>
MaMaMedia Storybuilder v.12 :( really an awesome activity<br>
Tuxpaint v.1 --> doesn't run at all<br>
Schoolsplay v.0.4- runs but display screwed up, hard to read<br>
MaMaMedia Creative Center v.3 - works but doesn't do __anything__,<br>
appears<br>
to be an advertisement<br>
Kuku - doesn't run<br>
Inferno - doesn't run<br>
Dr. Geo II - v.104 does run but really, really slowly<br>
Watch & Listen v.10 doesn't even show an icon in the activity panel<br>
<br>
<br>
What Works:<br>
Scratch<br>
Need Words app to work w/ Nepali, otherwise mostly useless<br>
Newsreader runs but very slowly<br>
Maze<br>
Speak<br>
Browse<br>
Write<br>
Paint, OK<br>
Measure<br>
EToys<br>
Memorize<br>
StarChart<br>
Moon<br>
SimCity starts up, didn't play w/ it much<br>
Record<br>
TurtleArt<br>
SocialCalc<br>
Ruler<br>
PlayGo<br>
PollBuilder runs, but Lesson Plans don't render properly, appears to<br>
be xml-1.0, UTF-8<br>
MaMaMedia Learning Center<br>
Jokebook<br>
Jump<br>
Jigsaw Puzzle<br>
XoIRC<br>
Implode<br>
Frotz<br>
XaOS<br>
Flipsticks<br>
<br>
Other issues:<br>
In general, Etoys-based activities start pretty quickly but take a<br>
long time to shutdown, literally 2 minutes. This is an issue our team<br>
in Nepal is wrestling w/. Hopefully we will come up w/ a solution that<br>
can be shared. I should ask Hilaire for help w/ this.<br>
<br>
Minimal documentation for Starchart, Go, Measure, Jump, Implode,<br>
Connect. These are __great__ activities but it would be hard for a kid<br>
to get into them w/out having background knowledge. Our two schools will<br>
share a 128 kbps Internet connection so it will be harder for the kids<br>
to google for answers.<br>
<br>
SocialCalc, appears to be proprietary. The license info read "All Rights<br>
Reserved." How are we allowed to use it<br>
and how can we translate it? Am I missing something?<br>
<br>
<br>
I got some weird errors during bootup HAL daemon userdel: user 1035<br>
does not exist<br>
<br>
I got 6 or 7 such messages<br>
<br>
Question:<br>
How do I install the locale for Gcompris?<br>
How do I install the TamTam suite?<br>
<br>
<br>
Hope this was of some use. On the whole, I was quite impressed by the<br>
breadth of activities. For now, 702 gets my vote for Update.1 stable<br>
release<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Bryan W. Berry<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
OLE Nepal, <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a><br>
<br>
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