Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 17 March 2006 16:56, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op vr, 17-03-2006 te 14:41 +0000, schreef john levin:
> > Jan Claeys wrote:
> > >> I wonder how long it'll take before someone ports Ubuntu to
> > >> run on it.
> > >
> > > Isn't the hardware too low-spec for a real Ubuntu port?
> >
> > Well, they're putting a version of Red Hat / Fedora on it, so
> > some sort of stripped down version of Ubuntu should be possible.
>
> Red Hat is making the OS, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a
> normal Red Hat system.  Ideally, this laptop needs a special
> minimal kernel, a simple init system (not sysv init), something
> like XDirectFB or another low-fat X-server, etc.  I think Ubuntu &
> Fedora have more in common with each other than with such an OS... 
>  ;-)

You mean it'll be a lot like RH5?

I'll bet many people around here got their first taste of Linux on 
that OS and will feel right at home with OLPC in a sort of retro way

-- 
Alan McKinnon
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