Fedora 10 on XO

[Peter Robinson]

> Hi All,
>
> I am working on requirements for the next major release of the XO, 9.1.0
> (see: overview at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0).
>
> There are two major requirements which would benefit from expert Fedora
> knowledge:
> - Rebase to Fedora 10
> - Run Fedora applications
>
> The first draft requirements on them are defined here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Linux_and_OS
>
> Any comments welcome. Do they make sense? Are they well defined? What else
> do we need to track?
>
> A few other questions (RTFM with URL responses OK):
>
> 1 - How big (MBs) are the supported X window managers? If we have to choose
> one or two which should we include?
>
> 2 - Is there a Netbook implementation of Fedora? We're going to need a bare
> minimum of default installed applications. Let me know if there are
> suggestions on which to include.

Not yet, there's interest in a "FedoraMini" spin but there's not been
a lot of movement on it as yet.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/FedoraMini

> 3 - Does Fedora 10 supports 802.11s?

I think this is mesh? If so not really, mostly from what OLPC
supports. I've no idea what the status of getting the OLPC changes to
NetworkManager are.

> I will do more research on those but if anyone has a quick answer handy it
> will save me time.
>
> Also, send me a note if you're interested in working on either of those or
> anything on our not-yet-prioritized roadmap
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap.

Not that i'm a coder but I can help out from a packaging and testing
point of view.

Peter