Fedora 10 on XO

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
> Chris -
>
> Thanks; I think your thoughts are rather similar to mine and I am trying to
> get information on what the actual user need (or perceived need) is.

This is a very important point from the adoption perspective. User
adoption is largely driven by perception, as tied to their
environment.  This is the demand side of the equation. GNOME, XFCE,
Fluxbox, etc are on the supply side and RAM disk space, processor etc.
are our constraints. I'm going with the assumptions that 1) most G1G1
users already have a primary computer and 2) given that Windows has a
large market share, G1G1'ers are Windows users.

The problem is to assess the needs of G1G1 users and *then* try to fit
GNOME, XFCE etc. all within the constraints mentioned above. IMO
starting with the supply side will be problematic.

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

> While
> there are obvious storage and RAM constraints involved, we need to be sure
> we're providing what most users will want (users of this desktop, of
> course).
>
> Thanks to everyone else, too, who is contributing to this discussion, as
> it's very important to move this topic into the real world of "what is
> possible, what would it look like, and what compromises would we have to
> make?"
>
>    - Ed
>
>
> On 12/4/08 10:08 PM, "Chris Ball" <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> I agree that the choice is yet to be made and isn't totally obvious.
>>
>> I prefer using GNOME, but our current answer for "How much disk space
>> does it require to run Fedora 10 and GNOME and apps?" is "a 4GB SD card
>> and 256M of swap", so it seems hard to get there from here.  Maybe we
>> can run GNOME and some tiny set of apps without blowing the NAND budget,
>> though..
>>
>> - Chris.
>
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