OLPC/OSChanges
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OS Changes
NOTE: This page is a work-in-progress
The following packages need changes for OLPC
- firstboot
- In OLPC we probably want something similar to this but likely with different characteristics
- Do we need to have the user accept one or more licenses? (Fedora does that)
- Should the laptops be password protected? Maybe just a simple 4-digit pin code?
- Having the user actually do auth is very useful for software installation to guard again malware; we can ask the user to auth when installing software and only on succesful auth we allow software installation
- Is written in Python; not sure we want to pull in the entire Python and pygtk stack for just this
- GConf2
- Wants to use D-BUS patches, see [1]
- Rationale: wants to avoid pulling in ORBit2 and bonobo
- Upstream Fedora probably wants these patches too
- gnome-vfs2
- Wants to use D-BUS patches, see [2]
- Rationale: wants to avoid pulling in ORBit2 and bonobo
- Upstream Fedora probably wants these patches too
The following packages are specific to OLPC
- matchbox-window-manager
- and dependencies..
- To replace metacity, see [3]
Packages we want to avoid
- ORBit2
- libbonobo
- metacity
- To be replaced by Matchbox, see [4]
- Rationale: Limited screen area and limited physical memory. Wants only to run a single app at a time. TODO: OLPCUserInterfaceRationale
