Revision as of 19:12, 6 July 2009

I currently (Abo 18:06, 6 July 2009 (UTC)) feel confused about the different Fedora based distros that are either targeting the various XO computers or centred around the Sugar environment. I'm therefore going to try to make sense of if all.

Questions

For each distro I want to answer the following questions:

What hardware is it targeted for? (XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-2, PC?)
How is it distributed? (Live ISOs, live USB images, NAND images, virtual machine images, installable OS (anaconda).)
What distro is it based on? (Fedora X, Rawhide, etc.)
What are the desktop environments (or services in case of XS) targeted for it? (Sugar, GNOME, ...)
How is it built? (tools to generate the distribution)
How, from where is it distributed?
What customizations have been done?
- Kernel?
  - How are the patches/fork/whatever maintained?
  - How is it built?
  - From where is it distributed?
- X.org?
  - etc.
What is the state of maintenance? (Broken, unmaintained, abandoned, under development, being deployed, in active use, obsoleted.)

And for all of the above, where is it documented?

Resources

Perhaps useful resources:

Distros

The current Fedora release

The targeted hardware is normal PCs (and also PPC). There's no straight-forward support for installing in an XO. (The live images do not contain a kernel that fully supports the XO-1 or XO-1.5 hardware. There is no NAND image. Anaconda/liveinst will not be able to install to NAND. livecd-utils does have an option to make a USB/SD that boots on the XO though.) Not really usable without a swap.

Desktops: GNOME, Sugar, and a bunch more

Built using liveimg-creator, distributed on fedoraproject.org

Fedora 10 for the OLPC XO

A F10 based distro that can/could be bought on an SD card and that will run on an XO-1. Power management support etc. probably missing.

Desktops: GNOME

Probably not really maintained.

Sugar on a Stick v1

Based on Fedora 11. Released, maintained.

Hardware: PC, VMware/VirtualBox. XO-1? NAND images?

Desktops: Sugar

What hardware is it targeted for? (XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-2, PC?)
How is it distributed? (Live ISOs, live USB images, NAND images, virtual machine images, installable OS (anaconda).)
How is it built? (tools to generate the distribution)
How, from where is it distributed?
What customizations have been done?
- Kernel?
  - How are the patches/fork/whatever maintained?
  - How is it built?
  - From where is it distributed?
- X.org?
  - etc.
What is the state of maintenance? (Broken, unmaintained, abandoned, under development, being deployed, in active use, obsoleted.)

Sugar on a Stick v2

Based on Fedora 12. Under development.

Hardware: PC, VMware/VirtualBox. XO-1? NAND images?

Desktops: Sugar

What hardware is it targeted for? (XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-2, PC?)
How is it distributed? (Live ISOs, live USB images, NAND images, virtual machine images, installable OS (anaconda).)
How is it built? (tools to generate the distribution)
How, from where is it distributed?
What customizations have been done?
- Kernel?
  - How are the patches/fork/whatever maintained?
  - How is it built?
  - From where is it distributed?
- X.org?
  - etc.

Rawhide-XO

Fedora 11 based. Not updated since Rawhide branched off towards F12.

Hardware: XO-1

Distributed as ISO, NAND image.

Desktops: Sugar, GNOME

How is it built? (tools to generate the distribution)
How, from where is it distributed?
What customizations have been done?
- Kernel?
  - How are the patches/fork/whatever maintained?
  - How is it built?
  - From where is it distributed?
- X.org?
  - etc.

F11 for XO-1.5

Targeted for the XO-1.5. Under development.

Based on F11.