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== Dextrose - Deployments' XO Operating System ==
== The deployments' XO Operating System ==
Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for the XO-1 and XO-1.5. It is being developed jointly by [http://activitycentral.org Activity Central], [http://paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay Educa], [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/ Plan Ceibal] and [http://sugarlabs.org Sugar Labs], in collaboration with members of the OLPC and Sugar community.
Dextrose is a Sugar distribution for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 jointly developed by [http://activitycentral.org Activity Central], [http://paraguayeduca.org/ Paraguay Educa], [http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/ Plan Ceibal] and [http://sugarlabs.org 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
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
much time for new development, we've merged a few features contributed by other deployments and
freelance contributors.
freelance contributors.
== Dextrose 1 "Juky" ==
== Dextrose 1 "Juky" ==
Also check these [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 detailed instructions].
Also check these [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 detailed instructions].
== New features in this release ==
* Journal sorting options ([[User:Aa|Andrés Ambrois]])
* CPU/Memory display ([[User:M_anish|Anish Mangal]])
* Journal Backup/restore to removable devices ([[User:tch|Martin Abente]], [[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
* 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]])
* Tabbed browsing ([[User:M_anish|Anish Mangal]])
* Accessibility features ([[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
* Journal repair functionality ([[User:Earias|Esteban Arias]])
* 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]]) (pending)
== Using this build ==
== Using this build ==
A few customizations make this image somewhat deployment-specific:
A few customizations make this image somewhat deployment-specific:
* Limited language support: to save space, we've included only English and Spanish translations.
* 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.
* Image signed with the Paraguay deployment keys. Laptops from other regions need to be unlocked in order to accept 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.
* The software update control panel icon checks for new activities on our wiki rather than on laptop.org.
* The Browse home page contains the Paraguay Educa logo and a few links to our website.
We may find the time to release slightly modified images to meet the
We may find the time to release slightly modified images to meet the
needs of other OLPC deployments interested in upgrading to Sugar 0.88.
needs of deployments interested in upgrading.
More importantly, we're happy to help other deployments produce their
More importantly, 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.
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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