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==Soas-v7 Release Announcement== | |||
[SoaS] ANNOUNCE: Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong) | |||
pbrobinson 06/05/2012 | |||
I'd like to announce Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong) | |||
There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of | |||
communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us | |||
new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all | |||
the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS | |||
v7 is based. | |||
Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release | |||
including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar | |||
development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been | |||
done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse | |||
and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add | |||
to. | |||
Some of the key new features of this release include: | |||
- Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1] | |||
- Massively improved x86 Mac support [2] | |||
- Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other | |||
improvements [3] | |||
- Return of Browse, now based on WebKit | |||
- The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks | |||
- Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel | |||
- An increase in default Activities by nearly 50% | |||
Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases | |||
including but not limited to: | |||
- Abacus 35 (GTK3) | |||
- Record 95 | |||
- Physics 9 | |||
- TurtleArt 138 | |||
Newly added Activities include: | |||
- Browse 137 (GTK3) | |||
- Countries 33 | |||
- Finance 7 | |||
- GetBooks 11 | |||
- Help 14 (GTK3) | |||
- Infoslicer 14 | |||
- Labyrinth 12 | |||
- Paint 43 | |||
- Portfolio 21 | |||
- Read 99 (GTK3) | |||
There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora repositories. | |||
The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases | |||
by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native | |||
Australian bushfood. | |||
You can download the release from the following link. | |||
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ | |||
It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and | |||
is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora | |||
Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package | |||
tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum | |||
install @sugar-desktop". | |||
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList | |||
[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html | |||
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Notes | |||
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum | |||
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http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas | |||
== Side notes == | == Side notes == | ||