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