Hi Chris, > > > http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-laptop-per-child-and-marvell-join-forces-to-redefine-tablet-computing-for-students-around-the-world-95007559.html > > The press release doesn't say so, but the tablet will run Sugar > > and GNOME over Fedora. > > A belated follow-up: I don't know why you said this, because we've > made no such decision yet. Sugar's a safe bet, but there are large > obstacles to running either Fedora (no ARM port yet!) or GNOME (not > suited for touchscreen use) on the tablets. We'll let you know when > we do announce the software stack for XO-1.75 and XO-3.
There is an ARM port for Fedora, and it happens to work very well with the Marvell ARM chips with at least two contributors from Marvell helping out. The Fedora ARM port is good enough that it was used straight up as the basis for the MeeGo ARM support. The only thing that's missing is a kernel for the specific device as the arm kernels can be very device specific but I doubt that will be a major issue as that is currently the case for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 (of course I wish its wasn't but there's still outstanding kernel patches needed for event the XO-1). The Fedora ARM movement is growing very quickly with a full koji build farm of 20 odd buildsystems and an increasing community. >From the gnome side I mostly agree, although the underlying infra will be fully multitouch enabled with gnome 3. The issue with the gnome 3 interface, which is relatively touch friendly, is its dependence on 3D GPUs for the OpenGL rendering and the face that the existence of open source 3D drivers on ARM is non existent and even worse than the state of the x86 a year or two ago. > (The fact that we haven't decided what to use doesn't mean that we > definitely *won't* use Fedora or GNOME. It simply means that we > haven't decided yet. Advice welcome!) Let me know if you need help, or details of people from the Fedora side who could assist. Peter _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
