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== Status ==
== Status ==


The project previously known as "F14 for XO" has been formalized into '''[[11.2.0|OLPC OS 11.2.0]]'''.
As of late 2010, OLPC has started working on a rebase of the OLPC OS platform onto [[Fedora]] 14, for the [[XO-1]] and [[XO-1.5]] laptops.

The build is relatively stable but has some obvious bugs, and lacks testing.

We are looking for experienced testers to help find and report bugs.
(via the [http://dev.laptop.org/ olpc] and [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ sugar] bug trackers)

More concrete plans for release scope and schedule are expected to be finalized in late December 2010.

== Download ==

Development builds are available here:

http://build.laptop.org/F14/

New builds are announced on the [http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel devel mailing list], e.g. "[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/030460.html F14 os3 development image released (XO-1 and XO-1.5)]"

To install from [[Open Firmware]] on an [[Activation_and_developer_keys | unlocked]] XO-1.5, download the .zd file to a USB drive and run:
ok fs-update u:\os''XX''.zd

To install from Open Firmware on an [[Activation_and_developer_keys | unlocked]] XO-1, download the .onu and .uim files and run:
ok update-nand u:\os''XX''.onu

== New features ==

This list is unlikely to grow significantly going forward - we're looking to focus on stabilization and get this out the door.

* Fedora 14
* Sugar 0.90
* GNOME 2.32
* Linux 2.6.35.9
* XO-1 switched from jffs2 to partitioned image: jffs2 boot, ubifs root
* XO-1.5 switched from ext3 to ext4
* Old OS images are not retained after olpc-update: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-September/029889.html
* Activation initramfs split from "run" initramfs (for faster boot)
* "Run" initramfs slimmed down to 1.9mb (no python in any non-activation bootpath) (for faster boot)
* Package list trimmed for a smaller image (even though we've likely still grown from the F11 days, as Fedora gets bigger and bigger)


[[Category: Builds]]
[[Category: Builds]]

Latest revision as of 17:39, 20 January 2011

Status

The project previously known as "F14 for XO" has been formalized into OLPC OS 11.2.0.