On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 15:44 +0100, Peter Robinson 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 > > What is the status of this SIG? I presume there's enough interest, and > that the hold up is more than likely the infrastructure issues. Is > there a planned name for the SIG? I would suggest something quite > general like "Fedora Mini SIG" rather than something that has netbook > in the name. I like "mini" -- it has some nostalgia factor. We can just start referring to them as mini-computers and watch people's heads explode :-) And yeah, hold up is the infrastructure issues took a lot of my time and then I went on vacation and then I've been just catching up with having been on vacation. Timing looks like it's going to be a bit of a bear but I'll pick a time that looks like it'll be as good as possible and send out a mail with that later this afternoon Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
