[OLPC-Philippines] Fwd: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] OLPC OS 10.1.3 final release

Cherry Withers cwithers at ekindling.org
Sun Jan 16 06:14:15 EST 2011


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From: "Simon Schampijer" <simon at schampijer.de>
Date: Jan 16, 2011 2:59 AM
Subject: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] OLPC OS 10.1.3 final release
To: "OLPC Development" <devel at lists.laptop.org>
Cc: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, <testing at lists.laptop.org>, "Sugar
Devel" <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>, <support-gang at laptop.org>

Dear olpc community,

we are very pleased to announce build os860 as the final 10.1.3 release
build for XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops!

This is an update to software release 10.1.2 that fixes important bugs and
includes some new improvements (listed at the bottom of this mail). The
release is based on Fedora 11 and contains the latest Sugar 0.84 and the
GNOME desktop.

The full release notes can be found at [1]. Instructions for installing the
release on an XO can be found at [2].

Many thanks to everyone -- testers, translators, documenters,
developers and others -- who contributed to this release!

On behalf of the OLPCA-team,
  Simon

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3
[2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation



==New features==

===Collaboration "under a tree" on XO-1.5===
We have significantly improved collaboration when XO-1.5 is used with no
Access Points available ("under a tree"). The Neighborhood View now shows
three default Ad-hoc networks (for channels 1, 6, and 11) in user-friendly
icons, and XOs will auto-connect without user intervention. This behavior is
similar to the "mesh" behavior on XO-1.

===Sharing/Backup Journal entries using a mass storage device===
You may now share Journal entries with another learner using a [[USB drive]]
or SD card. The user experience is: Martin wants to give a picture he has
been drawing to Simon. He plugs in his USB drive and copies the Journal
entry on the drive. Simon plugs in Martin's drive in his laptop. The entry
will be shown with Martin's XO color on the drive. Simon copies Martin's
entry into his Journal.

You can use this feature to backup Journal entries to a USB drive or SD
card.

===Connect your XO to external projectors and monitors===
We have added support for USB2VGA adapters. You can now connect an XO to a
projector over a USB2VGA adapter and project what is on your XO screen onto
a screen or for many people to see.

===Screen Rotation on XO-1.5===
On XO-1.5 it is now possible to rotate the screen using the 'rotate' button.
This allows learners to use the XO in ebook mode.

===Protected Activities Support===
In this build certain activities are protected from being deleted by
accident. In the activity list in the home view the erase option is disabled
for those. Protected activities are: Browse, Terminal, Log, Write,
ImageViewer and Record.

===Better interaction between GNOME and Sugar===
Switching between Sugar and GNOME user interfaces is smoother. Changes of
settings in GNOME now do not affect Sugar, and vice-versa.

The ~/Activities directory is now hidden from the user in GNOME, to prevent
accidental deletions that could harm Sugar. The networking settings are now
synchronized so enabling/disabling networking is unified.

Users can now change GNOME panels and fonts without risk of breaking GNOME
-- invalid settings are reset on restart.

The dialog to set a GNOME keyring password when connecting to a secure
wireless network has been disabled.

===Browse===
A home button has been added into the Browse toolbar. The button returns to
the home page, where important links are.

A busy cursor has been added for when a page is loading. This was present in
8.2.1 but missing from 10.1.2.

Finally, previews for downloaded images have been added, so that the Journal
will show appropriate thumbnails of downloaded images.

===Paint===
The Paint activity has been improved a lot:

* The cursor has been enhanced and realigned,
* Text tool has been improved
* New filters: invert colors and mirror effects
* Tool size and shape are shown
* Improvements to copy and paste

===Read===
Scrolling has been improved.  The up and down directional keypad to the left
of the XO display will now scroll, which is especially useful if the laptop
is in ebook mode. Using the fn key with the up and down arrow keys will now
scroll by page.

===Write===
You can now paste images into Write. Images can be copied from Browse, Paint
or Write. You can now put images into tables and export to PDF.

The style list has been reordered to place paragraph text styles before
heading styles.

===Wikipedia===
Page loading has been sped up and several smaller fixes made.

===Scratch===
A new camera plugin adds importing from camera on XO-1.

===Activity Updates===
We included the latest versions of Calculate, Colors, Distance, Etoys, Help,
InfoSlicer, Jukebox, Labyrinth, Memorize, Physics, Pippy, Turtle Art and
Typing Turtle.

===System Lid Behavior===
When the lid is closed on the XO, the laptop will suspend its operations and
turn off the screen.  Historically re-opening the lid has turned on the
screen and woken up the laptop for normal use.  In order to avoid a problem
where stacked XO units may accidentally turn each other back on, this
wake-up behavior has been disabled.  To wake up the laptop from suspend
press the power button once.
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