On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jon Nettleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 June 2010 21:48, Tiago Marques <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If you're planning on doing a repository exclusively for the XO-1, Gentoo is >>> simple to setup and, from what I read on this mailing list, thicks all your >>> boxes: >> >> I'm a Gentoo fan myself. >> But you're talking about a whole new project here. Packaging all the >> OLPC technologies and packages. Breaking many field-deployed >> processes. etc. >> >> The steps I outline above will (I believe) result in a usable OLPC OS >> distro similar to what goes out to the field today. >> To use any other OS, a lot more work is needed before you end up >> something which can be used at scale. >> > > Will CentOS still be supporting the older architectures? It was > previously discussed on the mailing list that it may be easier to > rebase a long term support release, especially for aging hardware, on > a RHEL base and then just manage a repo for the specific packages that > a SUGAR distro really needs. > > I can probably throw together a test CentOS image with updated > gstreamer/xorg/olpc-kernel pretty quick. >
Just checked the RHEL 6 beta and they are also only supporting i686 as their x86 architecture. That really doesn't help us then. Jon _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
