Hi Peter, thanks a lot for the heads-up and your continued great work!
I can't wait to give Quandong a spin later today. Cheers, Christoph On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to announce Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong) > > There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of > communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us > new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all > the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS > v7 is based. > > Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release > including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar > development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been > done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse > and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add > to. > > Some of the key new features of this release include: > - Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1] > - Massively improved x86 Mac support [2] > - Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other > improvements [3] > - Return of Browse, now based on WebKit > - The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks > - Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel > - An increase in default Activities by nearly 50% > > Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases > including but not limited to: > - Abacus 35 (GTK3) > - Record 95 > - Physics 9 > - TurtleArt 138 > > Newly added Activities include: > - Browse 137 (GTK3) > - Countries 33 > - Finance 7 > - GetBooks 11 > - Help 14 (GTK3) > - Infoslicer 14 > - Labyrinth 12 > - Paint 43 > - Portfolio 21 > - Read 99 (GTK3) > > There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora > repositories. > > The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases > by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native > Australian bushfood. > > You can download the release from the following link. > > http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ > > It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and > is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora > Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package > tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum > install @sugar-desktop". > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList > [2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes > [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > s...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu
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