On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Smaller form-factor machines such as the Asus eeePC have gotten a fair > bit of the tech press spotlight of late. Have you bought one with the > idea of running Fedora on it? Or have you thought about doing so? > > I'm trying to gauge the interest in starting a SIG with the purpose of > making distribution changes to make running on these devices more > streamlined and have more work "out of the box". This will involve both > the necessary work to just get the hardware working well with Fedora of > today as well as possibly a spin that is explicitly targeted at some of > the constraints of the hardware down the line[1]. > > If enough people are interested, I'd like to find a time later this week > or next week to have an initial meeting to kind of figure out what > bounds we want to tackle things in for the first pass. Hardware that I > think definitely falls into the scope would be: netbooks, UMPCs, MIDs, > maybe the XO? I've started up a page on the wiki > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz/Netbooks) that people can edit > and then we can go from there Sounds good to me. I've been looking to do something like this for a while with the aim to have a base small profile of packages that meet a minimum requirement for a series of used like you mentioned and then have groups of packages (not sure exactly how this would work whether it can be defined as a install group or through the use of a kickstart file) that can be added to the top to get a OLPC, NetBook, Hildon or whatever image. This way the working being done towards a small, low power image with packages without massive dependencies could be pooled together in one central place to reduce workload. Will have a look at your wiki page and add some stuff as appropriate. Cheers, Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
