Fedora on XO - Lite

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
>    > So why am I writing this post? I've been continuing to produce
>    > builds for this, and it turned out, that the most recent image is
>    > just around 275 MB! Hey, that's pretty small, hu? ;)
> 
> Cool!  We are moving OLPC's builds towards being created with
> livecd-tools on F11, so we should work together on these spins.

Yeah, this would be great! :)

>    > But there are also some problems: For example, it turned out that
>    > with the F10 updates enabled, there was just some image flickering
>    > and no chance to login to the desktop. I'm not yet completely sure,
>    > what to suspect: At first, I had SELinux in mind, but disabling it
>    > didn't change a lot (just some warnings went away). Now I'm
>    > thinking about some X.org drivers, but well...
> 
> Yes, it's the Xorg driver, as reported by Marco in this thread:
> 
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-January/022698.html

Oh, I didn't recall this one. Mh! Are there already plans on how to move 
on regarding this?

>    > Nevertheless, feedback (for example on what else to remove) or
>    > suggestions regarding the selected apps are greatly appreciated. :)
> 
> I'd love to see a similarly-trimmed-down GNOME spin.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Chris.

Heh. It's funny that I based this on the work I did with Jim some month 
ago... but here you go: I just built and tested such a spin with GNOME. 
It's around 285 MB, even though I included e.g. stuff like firefox, 
which is quite big.

Sounds like a beginning, hu? ;)

--Sebastian