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Hi Adam,<br><br>Thanks for the link to the installation instructions. I was trying to do a direct download last night, but it did not install after downloading. I'll try again today.<br><br>Caryl<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:44:13 -0500<br>From: holt@laptop.org<br>To: support-gang@laptop.org; testing@lists.laptop.org; olpc-sf@lists.laptop.org<br>Subject: [Testing] HOLIDAY GIFT PREVIEW: Software Release 10.1.3 (for XO-1 and XO-1.5!)<br><br>
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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!!<br>
<br>
RECAP: Expect a/the near-final Release Candidate of v10.1.3 here in
the coming ~24hrs or so:<br>
<br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" 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>
BETTER YET: Final release is likely prior to Christmas! As the new
school year starts in South America in not-so-many weeks/months!<br>
<br>
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:<br>
<br>
<big><big><a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/10.1.3/Testing" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/10.1.3/Testing</a></big></big><br>
<br>
Even Richard's electrical power tracking is there so you can
evaluate solar electricity effectiveness etc :)<br>
<br>
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
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1</a> 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.<br>
<br>
Just one more example: we talked a lot about the "Mesh Networking"
being replaced by Ad-Hoc Networking going forward, based on
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Ad_hoc_Networking" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Ad_hoc_Networking</a> 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 <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://laptop.org/start" target="_blank">http://laptop.org/start</a> 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:<br>
<br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/connecting.shtml" target="_blank">http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/connecting.shtml</a><br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/neighborhoodview.shtml" target="_blank">http://teach.laptop.org/www.l.o/en/laptop/start/neighborhoodview.shtml</a><br>
<br>
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
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose</a>, 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 :)<br>
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