User:NeoAmsterdam/8.0.2/Activities

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.

	Activity	Version	Notes
	Terminal	31
	Write	60	Newer versions appear to have abandoned 8.0.2/Sugar 0.82
	View Slides	12	I have not tested version 13, but suspect it will work
	Sugar Commander	5
	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	11
	Log	16	Sugar Labs does not provide version 16.
	Image Viewer	8
	Chat	60	Sugar Labs does not provide version 60.
	Browse	102	Even though Firefox 6 runs well, its UI doesn't translate well into Sugar. (Besides, Browse uses less resources.)
	Journal	86	Sugar Labs doesn't host Journal.
	Read	52	Sugar Labs does not provide version 52.
	StarChart	12