Fedora 10 on XO

[Greg Smith]

Hi Erik, Peter and Chris,

Thanks a lot for the comments and offer of help!

I updated the requirement to explain that the idea is a slimmed down 
version of Fedora which fits on our NAND.

I added a comment about upgrading too.

Here are some comments on the rest of Chris's questions:

* So we'd ship two different distributions on the NAND?
GS - Yes.

* Would they live on different partitions?
GS - Prefer a single partition. I added a requirement to say that 
libraries and files should be hard linked so that any code is used only 
once by both implementations.

* How will we allocate space between them?
GS - The goal is that they (Sugar and "standard" X-Window manager) are 
both just different "views" of the same image. So we don't allocate 
space between them.

* How much extra space on the NAND are we going to use?
GS - Not sure. How much do we need, minimum? It has to be less than 1GB 
- user file space but exact amount still needs definition.

* Will it stop us from being able to hold two SugarOS builds on the NAND
   at the same time after olpc-update, as we do now?
GS - Possibly depending on space needed. I think we would consider 
losing that feature if needed. tbd.

Keep them coming!

FYI for the devel list, I pasted the original e-mail below.

Thanks,

Greg S

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.

3 - Does Fedora 10 supports 802.11s?

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.

Thanks,

Greg Smith
OLPC Product Manager

Erik Garrison wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:01:31PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>>    > 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?
>>
>> FWIW, I think this is the first I've heard of:
>>
>>    "Must allow switching between Fedora 10 with a conventional desktop
>>    manager and XO running Sugar, and back. Must/should? allow this on
>>    all XOs shipping with XO release 9.1.0. That is, an XO which ships
>>    with Sugar"
>>
>> Fedora 10 (at least, as shipped on SD for G1G1) doesn't fit on our NAND
>> at the moment, and requires swap, so this one needs to become much more
>> concrete.
> 
> This is the case for the official Fedora 10.  It need not be the case
> for an rpm-based system built out of the Fedora 10 repositories.  I am
> currently working on a solution which should comfortably fit into the 1
> GB of NAND FLASH.  Call it a respin.  rpmxo.
> 
> Erik
>