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| Both decisions would be made by SLOBs or a decision panel convened by the SLOBs. This issue is a peripheral one that isn't particularly within the scope of the current SoaS discussions in this thread, though. | | Both decisions would be made by SLOBs or a decision panel convened by the SLOBs. This issue is a peripheral one that isn't particularly within the scope of the current SoaS discussions in this thread, though. |
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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 |
| + | _______________________________________________ |
| + | SoaS mailing list |
| + | SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org |
| + | http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas |
| + | |
| | | |
| == Side notes == | | == Side notes == |
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| * [http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100319_0950.html minimal kickstart file] | | * [http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100319_0950.html minimal kickstart file] |
| * Package selection: timeline and criteria. How does stuff make it onto SoaS? | | * Package selection: timeline and criteria. How does stuff make it onto SoaS? |
| + | |
| + | == Some checksum hash(s) please == |
| + | |
| + | The following links are missing the SoaS SHA256 checksum/hashs |
| + | http://fedora-spins.c3sl.ufpr.br/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/i686/Fedora-15-i686-Spins-CHECKSUM |
| + | http://fedora-spins.c3sl.ufpr.br/alt/spins/linux/releases/15/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-15-x86_64-Spins-CHECKSUM |
| + | Could someone post a png or gif of the hash for these files here since fedora won't update this until F16(Verne) is out. |
| + | |
| + | --[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 11:29, 18 October 2011 (EDT) |
| + | |
| + | :sha256sum 95650ec1257670e44466e75059ff8b05f636cd78658a025ae52c8992145f778c Fedora-15-i686-Live-SoaS.iso |
| + | :md5sum 67dc6fe4625f61d9d51f89c082f3c9c3 Fedora-15-i686-Live-SoaS.iso |
| + | |
| + | :sha256sum aa18f9dae1fe8d9bde47a45fefd19f2127dfc1001de3c1f76fbc1f85ec576e0d Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso |
| + | :md5sum db209baffdef41b7ca029b6e224ed7d1 Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso |
| + | :: from my copies --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 12:30, 18 October 2011 (EDT) |