XS Community Edition/6.2

This IIAB XSCE content does not reflect the opinion of OLPC. These pages were created by members of a volunteer community supporting OLPC and deployments.

IIAB/XSCE 6.2 was released April 19, 2017.

Please see the Release Notes here: https://github.com/xsce/xsce/wiki/IIAB-6.2-Release-Notes

Documentation was overhauled & refreshed in early 2017:

• https://github.com/xsce/xsce/wiki
• http://schoolserver.org/FAQ
• http://box/info (documentation for offline operators)

Install images for different CPU's, OS's and languages (many including sample content) are accumulating here: http://download.iiab.io

Among many other things, IIAB/XSCE 6.2 includes: (code is here)

• Strong Raspberry Pi 3 support, including the Raspbian Pixel OS (see security updates from late Nov 2016, and early 2017)
• Strong support for teachers/librarians who want ad hoc USB stick/drive materials to appear instantly at http://box/usb
• Captive Portal experimentation, so users don't need to type in any URL at all (e.g. http://box, http://school.lan, http://schoolserver.lan, http://172.18.96.1 etc!) Largely deferred to IIAB 6.3, but Coming Soon!
• Read the Release Notes for much more!

Background: We began working around a regular 6-month release cycle starting with XSCE 6.0 (released March 27, 2016) leading up to XSCE 6.1 (released September 22, 2016).

Join our weekly "Thursday" calls to help push forward what's coming next:

  http://tinyurl.com/iiabminutes

After 6.2 (starting in April 2017) our code will increasingly transition to: http://github.com/iiab

The latest *stable* release should always be available at: https://github.com/xsce/xsce/releases/latest

Return to this IIAB/XSCE 6.2 summary site anytime later, with short link: http://schoolserver.org/6.2