OLPC finally considered stable
After 303 iterations, Sugar, the Linux operating system powering the One Laptop Per Child project is finally considered stable. Sugar is built on top of Red Hat Linux and the details of the “stablization” can be found at DesktopLinux.com
The One Laptop Per Child program reported today that after 303 builds, it finally has a satisfactory version of its Red Hat Linux-based Sugar operating system that is considered stable, according to OLPC president for software and content Walter Bender.
“After a final few bugs that had hidden in corners were driven into the light, we issued Stable Build 303 along with Q2B76 firmware this week,” Bender said in his weekly email report.
Highlights of this stable build, according to Bender, include:
* A working mesh network
* An updated Web browser that scales on the high-resolution screen, making for an improved web experience
* Gnash, the FOSS Flash player (still somewhat unstable), is pre-installed; Adobe’s Flash 9 is also known to work but is not packaged or installed as part of the build
* A touch-pad driver fix for jumping cursor: The touch pad should be more usable, and the tablet is enabled on B2 systems
* Boot time has improved due to a scheduler fixThe Cambridge, Mass.-based project says it shipped about 2,500 test laptops to eight nations last month. Earlier this month, OLPC shipped 100 machines to children in a Nigerian test school, Bender said.
OLPC comes up with stable Linux Build - [Desktop Linux]
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