< User:Abo
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.
- Kernel?
- 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:
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Resources
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fedora_on_XO
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Future_releases
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fedora
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rawhide-XO
- OLPC/Packages_for_F11
- OLPC/Tasks
- XO
Distros
Fedora
The stock Fedora distribution contains a Sugar environment. Is it complete?
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. 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.
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. Power management support etc. probably missing.
Desktops: GNOME
Sugar on a Stick v1
Desktops: Sugar
Sugar on a Stick v2
Based on Fedora 11.
Hardware: PC, VMware/VirtualBox. XO-1? NAND images?
Desktops: Sugar
Rawhide-XO
Fedora 11 based. (Not updated since Rawhide branched off towards F12.)
F11 for XO-1.5
Targeted for the XO-1.5. Under development.
Based on F11.
Desktops: Sugar, GNOME