Fedora on XO
Alternative Environment for XO
Goals
The goal of this project is to create a alternate environment for the XO based on Fedora, giving the users a "traditional linux desktop" instead of the Sugar environment.
See Greg DeKoenigsberg's blog post for further details: http://gregdek.livejournal.com/34038.html
Ideas
Roadmap
This spin will be based on the Fedora Education Spin, but we are going to heavily modify it to fit the needs of OLPC.
The next steps will be:
- selecting packages
- creation of a kickstart file
- trying to get the spin boot on a XO
Packages
Those applications might be included, so here is a list among with some alternatives.
| type of application | name of application | name of alternative |
|---|---|---|
| desktop environment | gnome | xfce |
| web browser | firefox | |
| flash implementation | gnash | swfdec |
| java implementation | openjdk | |
| word processor | abiword | |
| spreadsheets | gnumeric | |
| pdf viewer | evince | epdfviewer |
| internet messenger | empathy | pidgin |
| media player | totem | helix |
| child games | gcompris | childsplay |
| geometry software | drgeo |
Other kinds of applications, which might be included:
- news reader
- graphics & painting
- gimp
- inkscape
- tuxpaint
- audio recording
- audacity
- jokosher
- games
- micropolis
- typing tutor
- tuxtype2
- e-mail programm
- thunderbird
- claws-mail
This is just a first draft and may still change.
