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 > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
