gandt;157225 Wrote: > There seems to be a lot of other stuff that also works straight out of > the box its a fairly normal Fedora Core 4 so Im hopeful it wouldn't be > too much work...
Ah, I see: http://www.pepper.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1049&postcount=3 > The Pepper Pad 3 will not be running a virgin Fedora Core 4 > installation; it will be about 95% Fedora Core 4 with the remaining 5% > of the packages customized and upgraded by Pepper. Basically, we've > used Fedora Core 4 and all of its benefits as the baseline operating > system, written a bunch of custom apps, and then upgraded some of the > core ourselves to newer versions (X, Window Manager, etc.). Most > notable of which is our custom kernel based on all of AMD's Geode code. > We will be maintaining a custom yum updates server to keep the Pepper > Pad 3 updated, happy, and healthy. > What it boils down to is that the Pepper Pad 3 is primarily a consumer > device where the underlying operating system should be transparent to > the end user. Installing additional Fedora Core 4 packages is nice for > hackers but 99% of our customers won't know or care that Linux is under > the covers. So you'd just use the RPM then. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29980 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
