[OLPC-SF] HOLIDAY GIFT PREVIEW: Software Release 10.1.3 (for XO-1 and XO-1.5!)

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For those who missed Simon Schampijer and Gary Martin's beautiful Sunday 
presentation of the imminent OLPC Release 10.1.3, with these guys 
calling in all the way from Berlin and Scotland -- you truly missed out!!

RECAP: Expect a/the near-final Release Candidate of v10.1.3 here in the 
coming ~24hrs or so:

     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation

BETTER YET: Final release is likely prior to Christmas!  As the new 
school year starts in South America in not-so-many weeks/months!

All the more reason to dive in testing these great new features 
a.s.a.p., requested by real-world deployments in South Americans 
especially -- using this gorgeous page Simon has put together explaining 
(A) dandy new stuff and (B) how you can help:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/10.1.3/Testing

Even Richard's electrical power tracking is there so you can evaluate 
solar electricity effectiveness etc :)

BEST OF ALL: Simon's thoroughness and explanations above are truly 
inspiring.  Notably his particular interested in creating a smooth ride, 
friendly and backwards-compatible for teachers who've made backups of 
kids' Journals onto USB sticks, using prior versions like Sugar .82 
derivatives such as http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1 etc.  
Kindly do him a favor and give this a go!  Posting your data-upgrade 
results to the wiki above, no matter how cleanly your/kids' portfolios 
upgrade to v10.1.3's based on Sugar .84.

Just one more example: we talked a lot about the "Mesh Networking" being 
replaced by Ad-Hoc Networking going forward, based on 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Ad_hoc_Networking and how this can 
in fact work with XO-1s and XO-1.5s all under the same tree!  Thanks to 
the new "Mayan Notation" symbols for Channels 1, 6 and 11 you (and 
hopefully the masses ;) will soon see in your Neighborhood View.  If 
anybody can please provide tailored screenshots to Luke who's about to 
release the brand new http://laptop.org/start that'd be *awesome*, as 
he's on the verge of publishing our 99%-done polished results from this 
spring's DC doc sprint, around these 2 pages especially:

     http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/connecting.shtml
     http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/neighborhoodview.shtml

PS Caryl, Nancie, Christoph & all the others on Sunday's call can help 
explain if you get stuck!  During the call I myself meant to ask how 
exactly Release 10.1.3 compares to 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose, and how they might co-evolve 
together/apart?  But time ran out as v10.1.3 filled up the whole hour, 
so keep up the great work as in the end we have a great topic to ponder 
for next time :)
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