Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Duncan Anderson]

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...   ;-)
>
>
> --
> Jan Claeys

According to the laptop.org website, the machine will have 128MB RAM and have 
a 500MHz processor. That is more than adequate to run a standard Linux 
kernel. It would be better if the GUI was icewm or xfce or fluxbox or wmaker 
based rather than GNome or KDE, though.

The storage is only half a GB, as well, so the amount of software is severely 
limited.

I don't see why it can't use sysv init, though.

cheers
Duncan

		
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