Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 12:05 +0100 schrieb Peter Robinson: > >> We have some good news: OLPC has decided to base its software release > >> for the new XO-1.5 laptop on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we > >> plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving > >> users the option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead. > > > > If you say "OLPC has decided" I wonder who exactly made this decision > > and when/if it was discussed in public. Can you please point us to the > > relevant mails, meeting minutes, irc logs or whatever? > > I suspect (and the same goes for the post about KDE) that it was/is > being discussed at the SugarCamp currently taking place in France.
I have to admit that face to face conversations are often more productive than mailing lists, but the downside is that decisions are harder to comprehend. > The > good thing about it being based on Fedora 11 it will be easy to > install XFCE/KDE or what ever each specific deployment wish to use > with a simple yum command. I'm afraid with Gnome installed by default there won't be much space left to install anything else. > I suspect the reason for the choice of > gnome is due to the massive cross over of sub systems between gnome > and sugar. Many of the underlying systems used in sugar are also > components of gnome. Some of these include > empathy/gstreamer/evince/abiword/totem etc which will reduce the > duplication of duplicate packages required to support both UIs and > hence the amount of engineering required by smaller OLPC/sugar teams. Same goes for Xfce. gstreamer for example is not a Gnome thing. It started that way but the gstreamer devs always point out that it's a generic framework. Abiword or gnumeric are not really Gnome ether, they only use some Gnome libs but don't need a Gnome desktop. So if this really was the line of thought, IMHO it's a little weak. > Peter Regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
