Xronia Polla! Kai nai, allo ena stable build. ----- Forwarded message from Jim Gettys ----- New Stable Build ---------------- Build 385 and firmware q2b87 form a new stable build. We do not anticipate another stable build for approximately 3-6 weeks, as we work on suspend and resume, power management, and the Geode LX bringup. We should have a automated backup script before the next stable build for backup of laptop contents to the school server we are working on; in the meanwhile, note that backup is simple using the "rsync" command included on the systems. Please update your systems to this build. Key changes and improvements include: o A fix for a number of crashes in Sugar, which have been seen occasionally became much more common in build 368 was finally traced to a bug in the fontconfig library. o Updated library content. o Improved UI for selecting networks, and further bug fixes in the network driver. o Fix for LiFePo battery problems. This is the last known battery problem. o Many directories (e.g. /tmp, /var/log) are stored in a tmpfs file system, for both performance and to avoid wear on the flash. Tmpfs' default limit is half of RAM; it is now limited to 15% of the RAM in your system, to keep runaway programs from causing out of memory conditions. o Sugar's memory of WEP wireless keys should be much improved. o Updated TamTam bundle: save and restore work properly o A new, improved calculator program from Reinier Heeres at Harvard. o Temporary workaround for presence service problem is in place. o Sufficient font aliases have been added for old X11 core fonts that most applications not yet updated to the current X client-side font model should work: specifically, the menus in Adobe Flash 9 for Linux would crash the plug in and browser despite more than 4 years of deployment of the new font system. Note that proper internationalization is impossible using the old X Window System font system. We see use of these fonts as a crutch that must be removed to meet OLPC's worldwide mission. The "xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc" can be used to remove these aliases. Downloading of files and invoking the right helper application depending on file type could not be completed by this build. Please update your systems to new firmware and new Sugar environments. The firmware fixes include fixes for both battery charging to fix a battery overcharge problem, so it is particularly important to update both the firmware and the Sugar environment. Release notes are found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_Release_Notes Both of the firmware and the NAND image will be updated by using the procedure found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Autoreinstallation_image Additionally, you can find the first content from the OLPC Library. http://dev.laptop.org/pub/content/ has links to online content http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library has related information. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library_Release_Notes has release notes. -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -- zvr -- -- +---------------------------+ Alexios Zavras (-zvr-) | H eytyxia den exei enoxes | zvr [ at ] zvr [ dot ] gr +-----------------------zvr-+