New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

[Jon Nettleton]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis
<mavrothal at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Sat, 4/10/10, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
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>> From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
>> Subject: Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119
>> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Fedora OLPC" <fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com>, "Chris Ball" <cjb at laptop.org>, "Devel" <devel at lists.laptop.org>
>> Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:35 AM
>> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 01:47 -0700,
>> Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
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>> Repositories for end-of-life releases are just moved to
>> permanent
>> archives which are mirrored in fewer locations. For
>> example:
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>>  http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/
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> Do you know of any place that has the Fedora 9 rpms?
> People are looking for them to add new apps functions and hacks on Sugar-0.82 machines but there are nowhere to be found.
> If F9 repos were still available, F11 builds might not even be needed for the XO-1.
> The same thing will happen to XO-1.5 by the time that F11 builds will get deployment status.
> I would assume that deployments need a LTS release or a seamless upgrade. They can not go by the 6-month release cycle.
> So mirroring a snapshot of the latest F11 repos before taken down will be important for the immediate future, till moving to F13-F14 or whatever is decided.

Has there been any discussion on whether CentOS was an option as a
base for the distro?  With RHEL/CentOS 6 hopefully within sight, that
would give a nice target to provide both the combination of stability
and long term support.

-Jon