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The deployments' XO Operating System

Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for XO laptops jointly developed by Activity Central, Paraguay Educa, Plan Ceibal in collaboration with OLPC and the Sugar community.

Our focus is stability and usability in the classroom, but we've also merged new features contributed by deployments and independent contributors.

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.

Hardware	OS Images	Size	Date
XO-1, without GNOME	os508dx.img os508dx.crc	411MB	Apr 1 2011
XO-1.5, without GNOME	os508dx.zd	339MB	Apr 1 2011

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.

Development releases | Older releases

Knowing your way around the new features

Installation

XO-1

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download both osXXXXX.img and osXXXXX.crc to the root directory of a USB stick or SD card.
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing (Esc) repeatedly during boot
Type the command: copy-nand u:\osNdx.img for a USB stick or copy-nand sd:\osNdx.img for a SD card followed by (enter)
Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "ok" prompt to return
Type the command reboot followed by (enter)
The XO will reboot, finish writing, reboot itself, and take you to the naming and color choice process
During the reboots, keep the charger connected to allow OFW to self-update

See also the detailed instructions.

XO-1.5

First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
Download osXXXXX.zd to the root directory of a USB stick
Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing (Esc) repeatedly during boot
Type the command: fs-update u:\osXXXXX.zd followed by (enter)
Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "ok" prompt to return
Type the command reboot followed by (enter)
The XO will reboot and take you to the naming and color choice process

See also the detailed instructions.

XO-1.75

The XO-1.75 is not supported at this time. Please contact us if you are planning to deploy Dextrose on XO-1.75.

Other netbooks

Please contact us if you need support for running Dextrose on non-XO hardware.

Using Dextrose in your deployment

We're happy to help other deployments produce their own OS images independently of us, thus exploiting the Freedom #1 provided by Free Software.

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 == The deployments' XO Operating System ==
-Dextrose is a Sugar distribution that runs on XO laptops, jointly developed by [http://activitycentral.org Activity Central] in collaboration with OLPC and the Sugar community, with contributions from many deployments, mainly [http://paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay Educa], [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/ Plan Ceibal] and [http://www.laptop.org.au/ OLPC Australia], along with independent developers. This close relation with the real-world XO scenarios and players enables Dextrose to connect the needs of the users with the evolution of the software, achieving an important synergy that benefits all of the Sugar environment.
+Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for XO laptops jointly developed by Activity Central, [http://paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay Educa], [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/ Plan Ceibal] in collaboration with OLPC and the Sugar community.
+Our focus is stability and usability in the classroom, but we've also merged
+new features contributed by deployments and independent contributors.
+== New features in Dextrose2 ==
+* Backport of [[0.88/Notes|Sugar 0.88]] ([[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]])
+* [[Features/Journal_Sort|Journal sorting options]] ([[User:Aa|Andrés Ambrois]])
+* [[:File:Dextrose_resource_monitoring.png|Intuitive resource monitoring]] ([[User:M_anish|Anish Mangal]])
+* [[Features/Backup_and_Restore|Journal Backup/restore to removable devices]] ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]], [[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
+* [[Features/Backup_and_Restore|Journal Backup/restore to schoolserver]] ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]])
+* Protected activities support ([[User:tch | Martin Abente]])
+* Improved GSM/3G handling ([[User:Dcastelo|Daniel Castelo]], [[User:tch|Martin Abente]])
+* [[:File:Dextrose_tabbed_browsing.png|Tabbed browsing]] ([[User:M_anish|Anish Mangal]])
+* [[:File:Dextrose_teclado_virtual.png|Virtual keyboard]] ([[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
+* [[:File:Accessibility_control_panel_2.png|Accessibility features]] ([[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
+* [[:File:Dextrose_journal_repair.png|Journal repair functionality]] ([[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
+* [[Features/Touchpad_control_panel_section|Fast switching between touchpad and pen-tablet modes]] ([[User:Walter|Walter Bender]])
+* OLPC Microformat support in activity updater (Akash Gangil, [[User:M_anish|Anish Mangal]])
+* [[Features/Sugar_Adhoc_Networks|Ad-hoc Networks]] ([[User:Erikos|Simon Schampijer]])
+* Ability to reissue registration to schoolserver ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]])
+* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dxo2/rpms-freeworld/ freeworld codecs] for most multimedia formats, including MP3 music and H264 videos ([[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]])
+* [http://codewiz.org/wiki/pictures/sugar/deployment/paraguay/caacupe/escuela_485_daniel_ortellado/dextrose-testing Extensive field testing] ([[User:Bernie|Bernie Innocenti]])
+* Lease information display in Control Panel->About My Computer()
+* Automatic crashlog reporting and manual feedback reporting, with server side daemon ([[User:Alsroot|Aleksey Lim]], [[User:tch|Martin Abente]], Mukesh Gupta)
+* Notification system ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]])
+* Automatic yum based updater ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]], [[User:Alsroot|Aleksey Lim]], [[User:M_anish|Anish Mangal]])
+* Nearly complete Spanish Translations ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]], Sebastian Codas (scs), Carlos Garay (car|0s))
+* One Click Share 3G ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]])
+== Dextrose 2 - World Edition ==
+[[File:Download-dextrose-py.png]]
+'''This is a release build''' targeted for use by multiple deployments worldwide. We do appreciate [[Dextrose/Contacts|feedback]] and [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/wiki/Dextrose bug reports].
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Hardware
+! OS Images
+! Size
+! Date
+|-
+| [[File:Xo-1.png]] XO-1, without GNOME
+| [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dxo2/xo1/intl/os508dx.img os508dx.img]
+[http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dxo2/xo1/intl/os508dx.crc os508dx.crc]
+| 411MB
+| Apr 1 2011
+|-
+| [[File:Xo-1.5.png]] XO-1.5, without GNOME
+| [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dxo2/xo1.5/intl/os508dx.zd os508dx.zd]
+| 339MB
+| Apr 1 2011
+|}
+GNOME builds are currently unsupported. If you require GNOME for evaluation purposes in your deployment, please ask on the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose Dextrose mailing-list]. For more details on this release, see the [[Dextrose/2|Dextrose 2]] pages: [[Dextrose/2/Changelog|Change Log]], [[Dextrose/2/Todo|Todo List]].
+[[Dextrose/3|Development releases]] | [[Dextrose/Resources|Older releases]]
+== Knowing your way around the new features ==
+* [http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/3g_configuration.pdf 3G Modem configuration]
+* [http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/3g_sharing.pdf 3G Connection sharing]
+* [http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/feedback.pdf Manual feedback submission]
+* [http://people.sugarlabs.org/anish/resources.pdf Understanding the resources icon and lease information]
+== Installation ==
+=== XO-1 ===
+[[File:Xo-1.png|right]]
+[[File:XO-XP.png|right]]
+* First, ensure that your laptop is [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys unlocked].
+* Download both <tt>'''osXXXXX.img'''</tt> and <tt>'''osXXXXX.crc'''</tt> to the root directory of a USB stick or SD card.
+* Drop to the "'''ok'''" prompt by pressing [[File:Esc.svg|24px]] (Esc) repeatedly during boot
+* Type the command: {{Code|'''copy-nand u:\osNdx.img'''}} for a USB stick or {{Code|'''copy-nand sd:\osNdx.img'''}} for a SD card followed by [[File:Key_enter.jpg|50px]] (enter)
+* Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "'''ok'''" prompt to return
+* Type the command {{Code|'''reboot'''}} followed by [[File:Key_enter.jpg|50px]] (enter)
+* The XO will reboot, finish writing, reboot itself, and take you to the naming and color choice process
+* During the reboots, keep the charger connected to allow OFW to self-update
+'''See also''' the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Downloads#Upgrade_an_XO-1_to_Sugar_0.84_with_Fedora_11_and_Gnome detailed instructions].
+=== XO-1.5 ===
+[[File:Xo-1.5.png|right]]
+[[File:XO-HS.png|right]]
+* First, ensure that your laptop is [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys unlocked].
+* Download <tt>'''osXXXXX.zd'''</tt> to the root directory of a USB stick
+* Drop to the "'''ok'''" prompt by pressing [[File:Esc.svg|24px]] (Esc) repeatedly during boot
+* Type the command: {{Code|'''fs-update u:\osXXXXX.zd'''}} followed by [[File:Key_enter.jpg|50px]] (enter)
+* Wait for the display to fill in with color and the "'''ok'''" prompt to return
+* Type the command {{Code|'''reboot'''}} followed by [[File:Key_enter.jpg|50px]] (enter)
+* The XO will reboot and take you to the naming and color choice process
+'''See also''' the  [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 detailed instructions].
+=== XO-1.75 ===
+The XO-1.75 is not supported at this time. Please [[Dextrose/Contacts|contact us]] if you are planning to deploy Dextrose on XO-1.75.
+=== Other netbooks ===
+Please [[Dextrose/Contacts|contact us]] if you need support for running Dextrose on non-XO hardware.
-Our primary focus is to get the best stability and usability in the classroom, and to provide the deployments with a way to get support in a appropriate time frame, along with the merging of new features conceived in the field. In Dextrose we work closely with upstream, to make sure that any changes that might be of interest to the whole Sugar project find their way in, and also to transmit the feedback that working directly with the deployments allows us to provide.
+== Using Dextrose in your deployment ==
-We're in the process of migrating most of the information about Dextrose in this wiki to the new tracker at [http://sugardextrose.org sugardextrose.org]], so please head there to get the most up-to-date information about the project. To better help the transition, all the pages marked as obsolete in this wiki will include links to the relevant information at the new tracker.
+We're happy to help other deployments produce their own OS images independently of us,
+thus exploiting the [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Freedom #1] provided by Free Software.
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