On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 17:23 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > Josh Boyer wrote: > >> One Laptop per Child > > > > Side note: Ok, not that OLPC isn't cool and shiny and exciting... but > > is it really a good example to be using in regards to what Fedora needs > > to adapt to? I mean, without one of the OLPC machines... what benefit > > does the OLPC have to Fedora itself? To be honest, I almost see OLPC as > > being it's own distro. (One that I would personally love to play with > > myself because it _does_ sound cool.) > > I see Fedora as a Canary. Using Fedora as a base, with a very different > focus, user base and design point. It's closer to mythtv than it is to > what the Fedora desktop is today. But it's the first, and we want to > enable more of this, not less. Experiment, prototype, go forth and > change. And use Fedora as your base to do so. Yes, use Fedora as a base. Great. Sign me up! But seem my response to Bill about the more specific question I was asking in regards to your comment about the comps system, etc. :) > > But your question is valid. What does OLPC give Fedora? Hopefully > quite a few side effects. At some point we'll be attacking memory usage > and suspend/resume stuff, and everyone will benefit from that. We'll be > breaking package dependencies where we can, experimenting with new ways > to distribute, install and update software. I'll bet a huge amount of > that will be useful down the road. There is a significant halo effect > here - don't ignore it. :) Oh, I'm well aware of some of the halo effects that OLPC could produce. I come from the embedded world where fighting with space constraints and memory consumption is a daily battle. Why else would I think OLPC is so cool? :) josh
