OLPC X0-1.5 and Fedora 11

[kam at kamsalisbury.com]

-----Original Message-----

From:  Steven Moix <steven.moix at axianet.ch>
Subj:  Re: OLPC X0-1.5 and Fedora 11
Date:  Sat May 16, 2009 9:22 am
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Rahul, herlo made a series of screenshots of this Sugar release on F11 

if you want to transmit it to your contacts: 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour



Steven



On 05/16/2009 01:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi

>

> http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/05/16/the-olpc-xo-1-5-and-fedora-11

>


Thanks!  Its posted to identi.ca and twitter now.

--
Kam Salisbury
http://kamsalisbury.com


> "Some good news from OLPC: we've decided to base the new XO-1.5 laptop's

> software release on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we plan to use

> a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving users the

> option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead. (This will

> mostly be useful for older kids in high school.)

>

> We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other base

> packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, including

> Sugar; in fact, we already have an F11+Sugar+GNOME build for the XO-1

> using pure Fedora packages. That build will get better as a result of

> this work (although OLPC's focus will be on getting the XO-1.5 running)

> and it will form the basis for the XO-1.5 build. "

>

> Rahul

>





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