IIAB 6.6 Preview 4 (just released!) is installable from http://download.iiab.io/6.6
1) Profound thanks to all who can assist Matt Johnson now actively testing the following 2 situations...where WiFi sometimes doesn't issue IP addresses...OR sometimes disappears within an hour or so: - RPi WiFi hotspot sometimes doesn't work when Ethernet ISN'T plugged in? dhcpd fails to start? #989 <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/989> - TK: RPi WiFi hotspot can fail within an hour if Ethernet IS plugged in during boot? #926 <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/926> *There is reason to believe that one or both of these highly intermittent gotchas may be due to underlying Raspbian / firmware issues, possibly raspberrypi/linux#2453 <https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2453> and http://community.rachelfriends.org/t/loosing-wifi-connectivity-on-rachel-plus-3-0/838 <http://community.rachelfriends.org/t/loosing-wifi-connectivity-on-rachel-plus-3-0/838> ? But we need more REPEATABLE PATTERNS -- thanks all who are able to contribute, rebooting as many times as necessary until patterns become more apparent and Written Up For Others !* 2) Thank you so much to Matt Johnson, who learned the hard way and again reminded us today that NOOBS has a Very Different partition table from Raspbian, and will not work :-) 3) In other news, IIAB 6.6 <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/3> has converged **tremendously** over the past month, thanks to Arky and many others' extremely intensive testing...by more than 10 different volunteers...bringing this to fruition with at least 3 deployments having just now in recent days gone live in schools with IIAB 6.6 pre-releases! So even if we don't receive every last one of our heart's desires — yes there will be a few KNOWN ISSUES even on 6.6 Release Day (see the bottom of IIAB 6.6's Draft Release Notes <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.6-Release-Notes> !) I'm convinced we can and should release around late August 2018, paving the way for IIAB 6.7 itself too coming very soon later this year :-) ASIDE: should we consider supporting NOOBS and its very odd partition tables <https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/wiki/NOOBS-partitioning-explained> for IIAB 6.7 later this year, to embrace a substantially broader global demographic, committing more deeply to reduce barriers to entry, in order to welcome everybody? (Or conversely is NOOBS's partitioning something we just cannot touch, even with a 10-foot pole :-) e.g. the current glitch arising from "tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmcblk0p2" on NOOBS can easily be fixed using "tune2fs -m 1 /dev/mmcblk0p7" IF NOOBS should even be considered at all?
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