[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed May 10 21:15:53 UTC 2006


Josh Boyer (jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org) said: 
> > The cases that I see that it enables are:
> > 
> > One Laptop per Child
> 
> Side note:  Ok, not that OLPC isn't cool and shiny and exciting... but
> is it really a good example to be using in regards to what Fedora needs
> to adapt to?  I mean, without one of the OLPC machines... what benefit
> does the OLPC have to Fedora itself?  To be honest, I almost see OLPC as
> being it's own distro.  (One that I would personally love to play with
> myself because it _does_ sound cool.)

If the idea is that Fedora is this base that you can build Things On,
yes. In this case, OLPC is sort of like RHEL. Or CentOS. Or Some Random
Fedora Thing That Goes On Linksys Routers.

Bill




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