On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de> wrote:

On 27.10.2009, at 03:50, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

I am hesitating a lot in spending a couple of hours to install on
several XO laptops something that may be not reliable (hacker level),
and which my students will reject instantaneously (non hacker level,
zero level of tolerance toward non reliable system), and which prevent
any potential pedagogical actions (not even there as there are many
boring technical pb to fix or overcome technical limitation, bad, bad
)

Hesitating is healthy. You need to judge whether the benefits (improvements in a newer version) outweigh the risks (possibility of breakage). I'm pretty sure it will work fine, but ultimately we release this under a license that says

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED

Is the update path you suggested reliable?

No. These OS updates are under development. The latest stable release by OLPC is still 8.2.1.

Regarding your original subject line, there is *nothing* I know that would prevent the latest Etoys to work with the latest Sugar. The latest Etoys also works with the old Sugar as already installed on the XOs.

But you would have to upgrade Etoys yourself, same procedure as ever:

       http://etoys.laptop.org/

This page is quite invisible.

And maybe a couple of more sentences about using Terminal and logging in as root etc. could be added here.