<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-116ef927-ec4f-c7f2-8a7c-3127e0d319f1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After three months of hard work.... and three weeks of working out the kinks in the release process XSCE 0.3 RC2 is ready to go. </span></p>

<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We went conservative this release. Emphasis on stability meant less time for new features. A big thank you to anyone who can help increase this stability out by testing RC2 in preparation for next weeks XSCE 0.3 release:</span></p>

<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--Tested</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* XSCE now runs on the XO-1.5,XO-1.75 and  XO-4.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Modular Architecture: cleanly integrate extendable services.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* XSCE runs on XOs' brand new OLPC OS 13.1.0.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Moodle is Back!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Content filtering via openDNS.com</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Script for formatting of SD cards, and integration into system</span><a href="http://dansguardian.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a></p>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Experimental</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ix86 & x64 testing is beginning in earnest.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Highly experimental XO-1 functionality now demonstrated, tho NOT advised!</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Auto-recognition and mounting of USB hard drives. Works but not quit well enough to handle the hard drive being jostled enough to cause brief disconnects.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Full offline installs possible going forward.</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><a href="http://dansguardian.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grab an XO-1.5, XO-1.75 or a XO-4 to give XSCE 0.3 RC2 give a whirl:</span></p>

<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://schoolserver.org/0.3" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://schoolserver.org/0.3</span></a></p>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are just getting started with XSCE we suggest using the instruction at </span><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Installing" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Installing</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to install your first server.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Once you are through the install, a good second step is to work your new server though it’s paces by doing the smoke test at </span><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Testing" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Testing</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the truly ambitious, try putting your server hardware of choice through the tests at and update the results table at </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Testing/Results" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition/0.3/Testing/Results</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> . </span></p>

<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Til then, these little guys rock (TM, iLoveMyXO.com !)  Monster thanks to the folks whose</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">months of springtime work went into this imminent accomplishment-- traveling days from quite different parts of North America to make this community product real.</span></p>

<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br>David Farning<br>Activity Central: <a href="http://www.activitycentral.com" target="_blank">http://www.activitycentral.com</a>
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