Dextrose/2

New features in Dextrose2

 * Backport of Sugar 0.88 (Bernie Innocenti)
 * Journal sorting options (Andrés Ambrois)
 * Intuitive resource monitoring (Anish Mangal)
 * Journal Backup/restore to removable devices (Martin Abente, Esteban Arias)
 * Journal Backup/restore to schoolserver (Martin Abente)
 * Protected activities support ( Martin Abente)
 * Improved GSM/3G handling (Daniel Castelo, Martin Abente)
 * Tabbed browsing (Anish Mangal)
 * Virtual keyboard (Esteban Arias)
 * Accessibility features (Esteban Arias)
 * Journal repair functionality (Esteban Arias)
 * Fast switching between touchpad and pen-tablet modes (Walter Bender)
 * OLPC Microformat support in activity updater (Akash Gangil, Anish Mangal)
 * Ad-hoc Networks (Simon Schampijer)
 * Ability to reissue registration to schoolserver (Martin Abente)
 * freeworld codecs for most multimedia formats, including MP3 music and H264 videos (Bernie Innocenti)
 * Extensive field testing (Bernie Innocenti)
 * Lease information display in Control Panel->About My Computer
 * Automatic crashlog reporting and manual feedback reporting, with server side daemon (Aleksey Lim, Martin Abente, Mukesh Gupta)
 * Notification system (Martin Abente)
 * Automatic yum based updater (Martin Abente, Aleksey Lim, Anish Mangal)
 * Nearly complete Spanish Translations (Martin Abente, Sebastian Codas:scs, Carlos Garay:car|0s)
 * One Click Share 3G (Martin Abente)

Dextrose 2 - World Edition


This is a release build targeted for use by multiple deployments worldwide. We do appreciate feedback and bug reports.

GNOME builds are currently unsupported. If you require GNOME for evaluation purposes in your deployment, please ask on the Dextrose mailing-list. For more details on this release, see the Dextrose 2 pages: Change Log, Todo List.

Older releases

Knowing your way around the new features

 * 3G Modem configuration
 * 3G Connection sharing
 * Manual feedback submission
 * Understanding the resources icon and lease information