Fedora 10 on XO

Erik Garrison erik at laptop.org
Thu Dec 4 18:46:56 EST 2008


On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:36:53PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> 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.

Hard linking is not necessary.  We can just ship two window managers.
Code is shared as it typically would be between both on a Linux system.
To my knowledge C. Scott has done so already.

Erik



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