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{{Note/note||Sugar on a Stick v5 '''Coconut''' is about to supersede the [[Sugar on a Stick/Mango Lassi | Mango Lassi]] release as of July 2011.}}
 
== Sugar on a Stick - Coconut ==
== Sugar on a Stick - Coconut ==


:''a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket''
:''a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket''
{{Message|Sugar on a Stick v5 '''Coconut''' has been superseded by the '''[[Sugar on a Stick/Pineapple | Pineapple]]''' release as of '''08 November 2011'''. See [[Sugar on a Stick/Downloads]] for the most current version.}}
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| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0;" |'''Coconut''' is the 5th version of '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''' released '''09 October 2011'''.




'''Coconut''' is the most recent version of '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''', and will be released in '''July 2010'''.
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|{{Highlight|'''archive .iso files''': [http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/i686/Fedora-15-i686-Live-SoaS.iso i686], [http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso x86_64]}}
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| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"|[[Sugar on a Stick/Coconut/hashes |hashes to verify downloads]]


See these [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation|installation instructions]].
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== Release announcement ==
== Release announcement ==
 
: See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02257.html Announcement]
We are proud to announce the availability of [[Sugar on a Stick]] v5 Coconut. More information about Sugar on a Stick, including download and installation details, is available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/.
 
*Beta '''Test''' Version of Soasv5-Coconut :[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora-SoaS#Soas-v5-Coconut_Beta] for Preview & Testing
 
 
=== What's new in Coconut ===
=== What's new in Coconut ===


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'''Sugar version 0.92.''' The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features support for ad hoc Wi-Fi networks, which expands the "under a tree"-scenario to standard Wi-Fi enabled devices. There are also new capabilities in the learner's interface, including a spiral home view, enhanced color selector, and Journal sorting. A lot of under the hood improvements for stability have been included, as usual.
'''Sugar version 0.92.''' The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features support for ad hoc Wi-Fi networks, which expands the "under a tree"-scenario to standard Wi-Fi enabled devices. There are also new capabilities in the learner's interface, including a spiral home view, enhanced color selector, and Journal sorting. A lot of under the hood improvements for stability have been included, as usual.
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'''Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.''' Coconut has a slightly larger Activity selection than its predecessor Mango Lassi and has continued the trend of providing a few, better-tested Activities. We've realized that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments&mdash;instead, we've chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their classrooms. <!-- Instructions on how to do this are available at http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/. A quick, but less pristine, method of build customization is available at [[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone]]. -->
'''Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.''' Coconut has a slightly larger Activity selection than its predecessor Mango Lassi and has continued the trend of providing a few, better-tested Activities. We've realized that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments&mdash;instead, we've chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their classrooms. See:
#[[Build Your Own Remix with Fedora]]
#[http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide customization guide]
#[[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone]] A quick, but less pristine, method of build customization
#[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/ASLOxo ASLO Activity Collection] DVD full of ASLO xo activities to Drag Drop into Soas Journal from DVD for Individual customizations.
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Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!
Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!
== [[Sugar on a Stick/Coconut/Virtual machines|Virtual machines]] ==
{{:Sugar on a Stick/Coconut/Virtual machines}}


== Release history ==
== Release history ==
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This section is a recap of the events during the v5 Coconut release cycle of Sugar on a Stick.
This section is a recap of the events during the v5 Coconut release cycle of Sugar on a Stick.


=== Pre-release ===
* SoaS v5 is based on Fedora 15, and has been delayed. From the Fedora wiki,
*: "The move to NetworkManager 0.9 came after the feature freeze, and the Sugar desktop wasn't accounted for in the scramble to get alternate desktop environments working with it." [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Retrospective#Could_have_been_better]


* <!-- '''25th May 2010''' - [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora] (and therefore [http://spins.fedoraproject.org Fedora Spin]) release cycle for Fedora 14 begins; this is significant since Fedora is one of our major upstreams. -->
=== Beta Release ===
:Download [[Testing/Reports/Sugar on a Stick#SoaSv5-20110415-i686 | (Coconut Beta)]] 09/12/2011
<!-- '''25th May 2010''' - [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora] (and therefore [http://spins.fedoraproject.org Fedora Spin]) release cycle for Fedora 14 begins; this is significant since Fedora is one of our major upstreams. -->


=== Re-approved as a Fedora Spin ===
=== Re-approved as a Fedora Spin ===
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=== QA ===
=== QA ===
 
:Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.
Thomas did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go. Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!
:Thomas Gilliard did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go.
:Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!
:Much help was also provided by the team at #fedora-qa; freenode IRC


=== Documentation ===
=== Documentation ===
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