Good Folk::<br><br>I notice that the link for this release is still over at <a href="http://build.laptop.org">build.laptop.org</a> with full access to the parent and sub-directories available.<br><br>I had thought that an 'official' release would generally be placed over in <a href="http://download.laptop.org">download.laptop.org</a> so that non-developers wouldn't get confused with the slew of new stuff like: F-12 ARM and F14. Or, regular users might get curious and load temp or broken builds and software by mistake.<br>
<br>Doesnt really matter to me, I brick my machines daily :-), but it might be better to place it over there to avoid support issues from some other rookies.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>KG<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Simon Schampijer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de">simon@schampijer.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear olpc community,<br>
<br>
we are very pleased to announce build os860 as the final 10.1.3 release<br>
build for XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops!<br>
<br>
This is an update to software release 10.1.2 that fixes important bugs<br>
and includes some new improvements (listed at the bottom of this mail).<br>
The release is based on Fedora 11 and contains the latest Sugar 0.84 and<br>
the GNOME desktop.<br>
<br>
The full release notes can be found at [1]. Instructions for installing<br>
the release on an XO can be found at [2].<br>
<br>
Many thanks to everyone -- testers, translators, documenters,<br>
developers and others -- who contributed to this release!<br>
<br>
On behalf of the OLPCA-team,<br>
Simon<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
==New features==<br>
<br>
===Collaboration "under a tree" on XO-1.5===<br>
We have significantly improved collaboration when XO-1.5 is used with no<br>
Access Points available ("under a tree"). The Neighborhood View now<br>
shows three default Ad-hoc networks (for channels 1, 6, and 11) in<br>
user-friendly icons, and XOs will auto-connect without user<br>
intervention. This behavior is similar to the "mesh" behavior on XO-1.<br>
<br>
===Sharing/Backup Journal entries using a mass storage device===<br>
You may now share Journal entries with another learner using a [[USB<br>
drive]] or SD card. The user experience is: Martin wants to give a<br>
picture he has been drawing to Simon. He plugs in his USB drive and<br>
copies the Journal entry on the drive. Simon plugs in Martin's drive in<br>
his laptop. The entry will be shown with Martin's XO color on the drive.<br>
Simon copies Martin's entry into his Journal.<br>
<br>
You can use this feature to backup Journal entries to a USB drive or SD<br>
card.<br>
<br>
===Connect your XO to external projectors and monitors===<br>
We have added support for USB2VGA adapters. You can now connect an XO to<br>
a projector over a USB2VGA adapter and project what is on your XO screen<br>
onto a screen or for many people to see.<br>
<br>
===Screen Rotation on XO-1.5===<br>
On XO-1.5 it is now possible to rotate the screen using the 'rotate'<br>
button. This allows learners to use the XO in ebook mode.<br>
<br>
===Protected Activities Support===<br>
In this build certain activities are protected from being deleted by<br>
accident. In the activity list in the home view the erase option is<br>
disabled for those. Protected activities are: Browse, Terminal, Log,<br>
Write, ImageViewer and Record.<br>
<br>
===Better interaction between GNOME and Sugar===<br>
Switching between Sugar and GNOME user interfaces is smoother. Changes<br>
of settings in GNOME now do not affect Sugar, and vice-versa.<br>
<br>
The ~/Activities directory is now hidden from the user in GNOME, to<br>
prevent accidental deletions that could harm Sugar. The networking<br>
settings are now synchronized so enabling/disabling networking is unified.<br>
<br>
Users can now change GNOME panels and fonts without risk of breaking<br>
GNOME -- invalid settings are reset on restart.<br>
<br>
The dialog to set a GNOME keyring password when connecting to a secure<br>
wireless network has been disabled.<br>
<br>
===Browse===<br>
A home button has been added into the Browse toolbar. The button returns<br>
to the home page, where important links are.<br>
<br>
A busy cursor has been added for when a page is loading. This was<br>
present in 8.2.1 but missing from 10.1.2.<br>
<br>
Finally, previews for downloaded images have been added, so that the<br>
Journal will show appropriate thumbnails of downloaded images.<br>
<br>
===Paint===<br>
The Paint activity has been improved a lot:<br>
<br>
* The cursor has been enhanced and realigned,<br>
* Text tool has been improved<br>
* New filters: invert colors and mirror effects<br>
* Tool size and shape are shown<br>
* Improvements to copy and paste<br>
<br>
===Read===<br>
Scrolling has been improved. The up and down directional keypad to the<br>
left of the XO display will now scroll, which is especially useful if<br>
the laptop is in ebook mode. Using the fn key with the up and down arrow<br>
keys will now scroll by page.<br>
<br>
===Write===<br>
You can now paste images into Write. Images can be copied from Browse,<br>
Paint or Write. You can now put images into tables and export to PDF.<br>
<br>
The style list has been reordered to place paragraph text styles before<br>
heading styles.<br>
<br>
===Wikipedia===<br>
Page loading has been sped up and several smaller fixes made.<br>
<br>
===Scratch===<br>
A new camera plugin adds importing from camera on XO-1.<br>
<br>
===Activity Updates===<br>
We included the latest versions of Calculate, Colors, Distance, Etoys,<br>
Help, InfoSlicer, Jukebox, Labyrinth, Memorize, Physics, Pippy, Turtle<br>
Art and Typing Turtle.<br>
<br>
===System Lid Behavior===<br>
When the lid is closed on the XO, the laptop will suspend its operations<br>
and turn off the screen. Historically re-opening the lid has turned on<br>
the screen and woken up the laptop for normal use. In order to avoid a<br>
problem where stacked XO units may accidentally turn each other back on,<br>
this wake-up behavior has been disabled. To wake up the laptop from<br>
suspend press the power button once.<br>
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