New features in Dextrose2
- Backport of Sugar 0.88 (Bernie Innocenti)
- Journal sorting options (Andrés Ambrois)
- Intuitive resource monitoring (Anish Mangal)
- Journal Backup/restore to removable devices (Martin Abente, Esteban Arias)
- Journal Backup/restore to schoolserver (Martin Abente)
- Protected activities support ( Martin Abente)
- Improved GSM/3G handling (Daniel Castelo, Martin Abente)
- Tabbed browsing (Anish Mangal)
- Virtual keyboard (Esteban Arias)
- Accessibility features (Esteban Arias)
- Journal repair functionality (Esteban Arias)
- Fast switching between touchpad and pen-tablet modes (Walter Bender)
- OLPC Microformat support in activity updater (Akash Gangil, Anish Mangal)
- Ad-hoc Networks (Simon Schampijer)
- Ability to reissue registration to schoolserver (Martin Abente)
- freeworld codecs for most multimedia formats, including MP3 music and H264 videos (Bernie Innocenti)
- Extensive field testing (Bernie Innocenti)
- Lease information display in Control Panel->About My Computer()
- Automatic crashlog reporting and manual feedback reporting, with server side daemon (Aleksey Lim, Martin Abente, Mukesh Gupta)
- Notification system (Martin Abente)
- Automatic yum based updater (Martin Abente, Aleksey Lim, Anish Mangal)
- Nearly complete Spanish Translations (Martin Abente, Sebastian Codas:scs, Carlos Garay:car|0s)
- One Click Share 3G (Martin Abente)
Dextrose 2 - World Edition
This is a release build targeted for use by multiple deployments worldwide. We do appreciate feedback and bug reports.
| Hardware | OS Images | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 XO-1, without GNOME
|
os508dx.img | 411MB | Apr 1 2011 |
 XO-1.5, without GNOME
|
os508dx.zd | 339MB | Apr 1 2011 |
GNOME builds are currently unsupported. If you require GNOME for evaluation purposes in your deployment, please ask on the Dextrose mailing-list. For more details on this release, see the Dextrose 2 pages: Change Log, Todo List.