HaitiOS
Brief Evolution
Starting Sept 2013, HaitiOS 5.1 like its successor 0.6 require unsecured XO-1 laptops, and are built off OLPC Release 12.1.0 with Sugar 0.96 using Tiny Core Linux. HaitiOS 0.6 will contain about 50 Sugar Activities gathered together from experiences across these sources:
- http://sugarlabs.org/~holt/haiti-shalom-activities-2011-2012/
- http://wiki.laptop.org/images/c/c8/GeoQuiz-5HT.xo by Nick Doiron & All -- works on 12.1.0, but mysteriously shows wrong data (Africa & South America data) until you (1) reboot (2) uninstall GeoQuiz-5HT (3) reinstall GeoQuiz-5HT. At this point the geographic quiz of Haiti's 10 departments finally loads properly!
- http://olpc-france.org/download/tuxmath-3.xo packaged by Lionel Laske -- Just Works with 12.1.0!!
- COMPARE to OLPC France's 2013 Madagascar Build https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApkC1NVMZoZodEJyNlprMFI3QUFvbE1Wd1pyWUUxcEE
- http://xsce.activitycentral.com/downloads/HaitiOS-0.6/bundles/ layered on top of...
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/12.1 which is an extension of...
- http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/12.1.0-21/21021o0.activities.txt (5 of which we are removing for HaitiOS 0.6)
Download
HaitiOS 0.6 (design doc) will greatly expand on this, expected Dec ~18, 2013.
Alpha and Beta releases available since mid-Dec 14, 2013 @ http://xsce.activitycentral.com/downloads/HaitiOS-0.6/
The latest should generally be at http://xsce.activitycentral.com/downloads/HaitiOS-0.6.tar.gz which can be unpacked to most any FAT32 USB memory stick, for a classic clean install (hold down the 4 game keys immediately after powering on!) Remember that your XO-1 must first be unsecured if you obtained it from Give1Get1 (use the offline method to liberate many XO-1s at once).
Barring unforeseen circumstances, an English/Intl version of HaitiOS 0.6 will be installed on Contributors Program XO-1 laptops shipping around the world starting late 2013 / early 2014.
History
Based on the work of Nick Doiron, Bill Stelzer, Sora Edwards-Thro, Tim Moody and invaluable other OLPC volunteers in Haiti, HaitiOS brings a richer set of Sugar Activities to encourage quick-off-the-mark independent exploration, and deeper "guided discovery" where possible. It continues to be based on OLPC Release 12.1.0, which we have found remains the fastest and most reliable overall operating system for our kids' and teachers' XO-1 laptops.
See blogs http://haitidreams.org and http://projectrive.wordpress.com for extensive backstory from 2011, 2012, 2013 and onwards.
Inspiration
Truly great work has gone into Nepal's NEXO software for ~4000 XO-1 laptops, OLPC France's 2013 Madagascar Build and Australia's XO-1 Training Pack, etc! In the free/open tradition, we hope this exchange among all of us only grows in coming years.
Regrettably, we have found Release 13.2.0, Sugar 0.100 and Dextrose 4 are not yet fast enough for XO-1 laptops. In future we hope this changes, or as the case may be, that a standards-compliant Browse activity can evolve alongside Release OLPC 12.x.x year-by-year!
Contact
George Hunt and Adam Holt (holt @ laptop.org)
