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'''This is a Release Candidate'''. This pre-release builds have been tested in classrooms for about one month.
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'''This is a Release Candidate'''. This build has been tested in two classrooms for over one month.
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We believe them to be stable and ready for general use. If no further issues are discovered, the RC
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will become our final Dextrose 1 release.
  
* Dextrose 1 RC for the XO-1: [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1/py/os373pyg.img os373pyg.img] [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1/py/os373pyg.crc os373pyg.crc]
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* Dextrose 1 RC for the XO-1.5: [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1.5/py/os373pyg.zd os373pyg.zd]
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| [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1/py/os373pyg.img os373pyg.img] [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1/py/os373pyg.crc os373pyg.crc]
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| [http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1.5/py/os373pyg.zd os373pyg.zd]
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Want to help us with testing? Check out our latest [[/Builds|development builds]].
 
Want to help us with testing? Check out our latest [[/Builds|development builds]].

Revision as of 00:21, 16 August 2010

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The deployments' XO Operating System

Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 jointly developed by Activity Central, Paraguay Educa, Plan Ceibal and Sugar Labs in collaboration with the OLPC and Sugar community.

The focus of this build is stability and usability in a classroom environment. While there wasn't much time for new development, we've merged a few features contributed by other deployments and freelance contributors.

Dextrose 1 Juky

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This is a Release Candidate. This build has been tested in two classrooms for over one month. We believe them to be stable and ready for general use. If no further issues are discovered, the RC will become our final Dextrose 1 release.

Hardware Images Size Date
XO-1 os373pyg.img os373pyg.crc 518MB Aug 15 2010
XO-1.5 os373pyg.zd 557MB Aug 15 2010

Want to help us with testing? Check out our latest development builds.

Installation

XO-1

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  • First, ensure that your laptop is unlocked.
  • Download both osNNNpy.img and osNNNpy.crc to the root directory of a USB stick
  • Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing ESC repetedly during boot
  • Type the command: copy-nand u:\osNNNpy.img followed by ENTER
  • During the next reboot, keep the charger connected to allow OFW to self-update

Also check these detailed instructions.

XO-1.5

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  • Download osNNNpy.zd to the root directory of a USB stick
  • Drop to the "ok" prompt by pressing ESC repetedly during boot
  • Type the command: fs-update u:\osNNNpy.zd followed by ENTER

Also check these detailed instructions.

New features in this release

Using this build

A few customizations make this image somewhat deployment-specific:

  • Limited language support: in order to save space, only English and Spanish translations are included.
  • Image is signed with the Paraguay deployment keys. Laptops from other regions need to be unlocked in order to load this image.
  • The software update control panel icon checks for new activities on the Paraguay Educa wiki.
  • The Browse home page contains the Paraguay Educa logo and links to our website.

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

More importantly, 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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