-----Original Message----- From: Steven Moix <steven.moix@xxxxxxxxxx> Subj: Re: OLPC X0-1.5 and Fedora 11 Date: Sat May 16, 2009 9:22 am Size: 1K To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base<fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Rahul, herlo made a series of screenshots of this Sugar release on F11 if you want to transmit it to your contacts: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour Steven On 05/16/2009 01:48 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/05/16/the-olpc-xo-1-5-and-fedora-11 > Thanks! Its posted to identi.ca and twitter now. -- Kam Salisbury http://kamsalisbury.com > "Some good news from OLPC: we've decided to base the new XO-1.5 laptop's > software release on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we plan to use > a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving users the > option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead. (This will > mostly be useful for older kids in high school.) > > We think we'll need to use our own kernel and initrd, but the other base > packages we expect to need are present in Fedora already, including > Sugar; in fact, we already have an F11+Sugar+GNOME build for the XO-1 > using pure Fedora packages. That build will get better as a result of > this work (although OLPC's focus will be on getting the XO-1.5 running) > and it will form the basis for the XO-1.5 build. " > > Rahul > -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
