ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

[Bernie Innocenti]

This is a late announcement of the final release of the XO-1
images based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.84:

 http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img
 http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.crc
 http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img.fs.zip


This build is being deployed to 10 schools in Caacupé [1]. Feedback from
teachers and teacher trainers has been very positive so far.


== Changes relative to the previous release (os140py) ==

 * GSM broadband support: add usb_modeswitch and usb_modeswitch-data,
   enabling more modem models to work with Fedora 11. (me)

 * Credit Sugar Labs in boot animation (me)

 * Add custom Browse home page with links to Paraguay Educa resources (rgs)

 * Update Turtle Art to pick Spanish translation (walter)

 * Re-enable olpc-update and the versioned fs (me)

 * Point software update control panel at http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org

 * Pull latest OS updates from upstream (fedora)


== Bugs fixed ==

 * Race condition with name widget in the activity toolbar
   http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1948

 * Some activities crashing when resuming from the Journal
   http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/15/


== Known bugs ==

 * Unable to read FAT filesystems containing invalid file dates
   http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/43/


== How to help testing ==

Feedback from the entire community is very appreciated, although we're
not planning any further releases of the Sugar 0.84 series.

Bugs affecting upstream components are better filed in their respective
trackers:

 * Sugar and activities: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/
 * Fedora 11: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 * Drivers and OLPC customizations: http://dev.laptop.org/
 * Paraguay-specific bugs: http://trac.paraguayeduca.org/

If you're unsure where a bug belongs to, use the Paragauy Educa tracker.
Please, always assign these bugs to "Carlos", who will keep our status
summary updated.


== Using this build outside Paraguay ==

A few customizations make this image somewhat Paraguay-specific:

 * Limited language support: to save space, we've included only
   English and Spanish translations.

 * Image signed with the Paraguay deployment keys. Laptops from other
   regions need to be be unlocked in order to accept this image.

 * The software update control panel icon checks for new activities
   on our wiki rather than on laptop.org.

 * The Browse home page contains the Paraguay Educa logo and a few
   links to our website.

We may find the time to release slightly modified images to meet the
needs of other OLPC deployments interested in upgrading to Sugar 0.84.

More importantly, we're happy to help other deployments produce their
own OS images independently of us, thus exploiting Free Software's most
important advantage [2].


== How to join development ==

This development cycle is closed as a new development cycle based on
Sugar 0.88 has started already. Public builds will be available soon.

Build system source:
  http://git.paraguayeduca.org/gitweb/users/bernie/olpc-os-builder.git

Yum Repository containing our custom RPMs (along with sources):
  http://repo.paraguayeduca.org/f11-xo1-py/i386/os/
  http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/pyeduca-repo/f11-xo1-py/

IRC:
  #olpc-paraguay irc.feenode.net (English spoken)


[1] The actual production build is os179py. The only difference between
    os179py and os180py is improved compatibility with GSM modems.

[2] Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change
    it to make it do what you wish.

-- 
   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/

[Simon Schampijer]

On 05/18/2010 07:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>  This is a late announcement of the final release of the XO-1
>  images based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.84:
>
>    http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img
>    http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.crc
>    http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img.fs.zip
>
>
>  This build is being deployed to 10 schools in Caacupé [1]. Feedback from
>  teachers and teacher trainers has been very positive so far. 
Hi Bernie, Steven,

is this [1] the latest mainline build for the XO-1? Are we 'out of sync' 
with the XO-1.5 builds [3]?

Just trying to get a picture of the situation.

Thanks,
    Simon

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
[2] http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/XO-1/builds/OS11/
[3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5

[Steven M. Parrish]

This is a release Bernie has for the deployment in Paraguay.  He and I
maintain seperate build systems but do share our work with each other.
 I will have a new release out soon for testing and hope to have a
final release before moving to an F12 based release.  We have deviated
from the XO1.5 in order to accomodate 1.0 specific issues.  These
changes will get merged back into the mainline system after final
release.

Steven

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon(a)schampijer.de&gt; wrote:
>  On 05/18/2010 07:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > This is a late announcement of the final release of the XO-1
> > images based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.84:
> >
> >   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img
> >   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.crc
> >   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img.fs.zip
> >
> >
> > This build is being deployed to 10 schools in Caacupé [1]. Feedback from
> > teachers and teacher trainers has been very positive so far.
>
>  Hi Bernie, Steven,
>
>  is this [1] the latest mainline build for the XO-1? Are we 'out of sync'
>  with the XO-1.5 builds [3]?
>
>  Just trying to get a picture of the situation.
>
>  Thanks,
>     Simon
>
>  [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
>  [2] http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/XO-1/builds/OS11/
>  [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5
>  _______________________________________________
>  olpc mailing list
>  olpc(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc

[IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie(a)codewiz.org&gt; wrote:
>  This is a late announcement of the final release of the XO-1
>  images based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.84:
>
>   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img
>   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.crc
>   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-py/os180py.img.fs.zip
>
>
>  This build is being deployed to 10 schools in Caacupé [1]. Feedback from
>  teachers and teacher trainers has been very positive so far.
>
>
>  == Changes relative to the previous release (os140py) ==
>
>   * GSM broadband support: add usb_modeswitch and usb_modeswitch-data,
>    enabling more modem models to work with Fedora 11. (me)
>
>   * Credit Sugar Labs in boot animation (me)
>
>   * Add custom Browse home page with links to Paraguay Educa resources (rgs)
>
>   * Update Turtle Art to pick Spanish translation (walter)
>
>   * Re-enable olpc-update and the versioned fs (me)
>
>   * Point software update control panel at http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org
>
>   * Pull latest OS updates from upstream (fedora)
>
>
>  == Bugs fixed ==
>
>   * Race condition with name widget in the activity toolbar
>    http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1948
>
>   * Some activities crashing when resuming from the Journal
>    http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/15/
>
>
>  == Known bugs ==
>
>   * Unable to read FAT filesystems containing invalid file dates
>    http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/43/
>
>
>  == How to help testing ==
>
>  Feedback from the entire community is very appreciated, although we're
>  not planning any further releases of the Sugar 0.84 series.
>
>  Bugs affecting upstream components are better filed in their respective
>  trackers:
>
>   * Sugar and activities: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/
>   * Fedora 11: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
>   * Drivers and OLPC customizations: http://dev.laptop.org/
>   * Paraguay-specific bugs: http://trac.paraguayeduca.org/
>
>  If you're unsure where a bug belongs to, use the Paragauy Educa tracker.
>  Please, always assign these bugs to "Carlos", who will keep our status
>  summary updated.
>
>
>  == Using this build outside Paraguay ==
>
>  A few customizations make this image somewhat Paraguay-specific:
>
>   * Limited language support: to save space, we've included only
>    English and Spanish translations.
>
>   * Image signed with the Paraguay deployment keys. Laptops from other
>    regions need to be be unlocked in order to accept this image.
>
>   * The software update control panel icon checks for new activities
>    on our wiki rather than on laptop.org.
>
>   * The Browse home page contains the Paraguay Educa logo and a few
>    links to our website.
>
>  We may find the time to release slightly modified images to meet the
>  needs of other OLPC deployments interested in upgrading to Sugar 0.84.
>
>  More importantly, we're happy to help other deployments produce their
>  own OS images independently of us, thus exploiting Free Software's most
>  important advantage [2].
>
>
>  == How to join development ==
>
>  This development cycle is closed as a new development cycle based on
>  Sugar 0.88 has started already. Public builds will be available soon.
>
>  Build system source:
>   http://git.paraguayeduca.org/gitweb/users/bernie/olpc-os-builder.git
>
>  Yum Repository containing our custom RPMs (along with sources):
>   http://repo.paraguayeduca.org/f11-xo1-py/i386/os/
>   http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/pyeduca-repo/f11-xo1-py/
>
>  IRC:
>   #olpc-paraguay irc.feenode.net (English spoken)
>
>
>  [1] The actual production build is os179py. The only difference between
>     os179py and os180py is improved compatibility with GSM modems.
>
>  [2] Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change
>     it to make it do what you wish.
>
>  --
>    // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>   \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>  IAEP(a)lists.sugarlabs.org
>  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep 
How do I install this image? I tried the USB method on a XO1 with dev
key and security disabled, but it still complains about not finding
the right keys.

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems
Director, Campus Business Solutions
San Francisco State University
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
http://cbs.sfsu.edu/
http://is.sfsu.edu/

[IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Fri, 18-06-2010 a las 18:24 +0000, Sameer Verma escribió:

>  How do I install this image? I tried the USB method on a XO1 with
> dev
>  key and security disabled, but it still complains about not finding
>  the right keys. 
Are you pressing the four game keys together? This triggers a secure
update through fs.zip.

On unlocked laptops, all you need to do is drop into the Open Firmware
"ok" prompt and type:

   copy-nand u:\os180py.img

-- 
   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/

[IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie(a)codewiz.org&gt; wrote:
>  El Fri, 18-06-2010 a las 18:24 +0000, Sameer Verma escribió:
>
> > How do I install this image? I tried the USB method on a XO1 with dev
> > key and security disabled, but it still complains about not finding
> > the right keys.
>
>  Are you pressing the four game keys together? This triggers a secure
>  update through fs.zip.
>  
Yes.

>  On unlocked laptops, all you need to do is drop into the Open
> Firmware
>  "ok" prompt and type:
>
>    copy-nand u:\os180py.img 
Got it. Its writing right now. If we have a wiki page for the py
images, this tip would be helpful.

Sameer
>  --
>    // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>   \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>
>

[IAEP] ANNOUNCE: F11 for XO-1 build 180py released

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Fri, 18-06-2010 a las 18:10 -0700, Sameer Verma escribió:

>  > On unlocked laptops, all you need to do is drop into the Open
> Firmware
>  > "ok" prompt and type:
>  >
>  >   copy-nand u:\os180py.img
>  
>  Got it. Its writing right now. If we have a wiki page for the py
>  images, this tip would be helpful. 
It's already documented here:

  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Sugar-0.88#Installation

-- 
   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/