User:NeoAmsterdam/8.0.2/Activities

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Occasionally (perhaps too often) I do a thorough cleaning and reinstallation. Part of that process is to reinstall all the activities I use.

Normally, the XO will ask for permission to check for activities over the wireless network. But I reason that if I have the up-to-date OS on a USB key, then I might as well have my up-to-date activities on a USB key as well. Sugar Labs tends to have the most recent versions of activities on their downloads site, but some activities are found elsewhere.

After a lot of trial and error, here's a concise, condensed, and wholly incomplete table of activities that work with build 8.0.2 and where to obtain them. These can be stored on the same USB drive as the OS installer. That way, all you have to do is copy the activities to /home/olpc/Activites and unzip them.

Xo s.png Activity Version Notes
Activity-terminal.svg Terminal 31
Activity-write.svg Write 60 Newer versions appear to have abandoned 8.0.2/Sugar 0.82
Viewslides.svg View Slides 12 I have not tested version 13, but suspect it will work
Sugar Commander 5
Activity-record.svg Record 67 Video capture at "best" quality barely averages 1 frame per second; at "high" quality, 5 frames per second; "low" quality has fluid motion but terrible picture quality. Also, trying to remove a recording that's being viewed will crash the activity and force Sugar to restart.
Moon-icon.png Moon 11
Activity-log.svg Log 16 Sugar Labs does not provide version 16.
Image Viewer 8
Activity-chat.svg Chat 60 Sugar Labs does not provide version 60.
Activity-web.svg Browse 102 Even though Firefox is available for OLPCs, its UI doesn't translate well into Sugar. (Besides, Browse uses less resources.)
Activity-journal.svg Journal 86 Sugar Labs doesn't host Journal.
Activity-activity-read.svg Read 52 Sugar Labs does not provide version 52.
Stars icon.svg StarChart 12