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[[Fedora]] was the underlying operating system on the OLPC XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4 laptops. This is the Linux distribution (previously called "Fedora Core") developed by Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Because it is the Linux base chosen by the OLPC on which to develop [[Sugar]], it is a reference for any other [[:Category:Linux distributions|Linux distribution]] attempting to run on the OLPC XO hardware or present the [[Sugar]] UI on a conventional computer.
'''Fedora''' is the basic OS of OLPC XO laptop. This is the Linux distribution which is, previously called "Fedora Core", developed by [[Fedora Project]] and sponsored by [[Red Hat]].


Each OLPC [[Releases|software release]] had been based on a version of Fedora, for example [[Release notes/13.2.7|13.2.7]] is based on Fedora 18. Over time, the OLPC operating system had moved closer to a "stock" Fedora release with some additional OLPC packages, created with the [[OS Builder]] tool.
Because it is the Linux base chosen by the OLPC on which to develop [[Sugar]], it is a reference for any other [[:Category:Linux distributions|Linux distribution]] whose intention is to be an alternative or different take.

== Fedora Core ==

Old builds including the 406.XX series were based on Fedora Core 6.

The transition to Fedora 7 happened before the Trial 2 milestone (build 542) ([[OLPC Trial-2 Software Release Notes]]).

As of build 694, the OS is still Fedora 7 as can be seen in the [http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build694/devel_jffs2/build.log build log].

The [[8.2.0]] release was rebased on Fedora 9. Development efforts took place in the [[OLPC-3|olpc3]] stream but were merged into [[joyride]] as of build joyride-2072.
[[Distro version migration nastiness]] records some of the changes made to the OLPC version of Fedora 7 that had to be reapplied to Fedora 9, and maybe in future rebasing efforts.

:What type of problems can you expect if you add one of the [[http://koji.fedoraproject.org/static-repos/ koji repositories]] to your configured [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yum yum]] repositories configuration and attempt to install packages from them?

== Language Support ==
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary Fedora Core 6] uses the [[SCIM]] (Smart Common Input Framework) system to support multiple [[IME]]s and [[keyboard layouts]] for multiple [[writing systems]] and [[languages]]. This includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other languages.


== Installing Sugar ==
== Installing Sugar ==
If you have a Fedora distribution running on a computer, you can install the [[Sugar]] environment that runs on the XO laptop.
If you have a Fedora distribution running on a computer, you can install the [[Sugar]] environment that runs on the XO laptop.
*[[Sugar on Fedora 7]]
*[[Sugar on Fedora]]
*[[Sugar on Fedora Core 6]]
*[[Sugar on Fedora Core 5]]

== See also ==
*[[Fedora Project]]
*[[Installing Fedora Core]]


== External Links ==
== External links ==
*[http://fedoraproject.org/ The Fedora Project]
*[http://fedoraproject.org/ The Fedora Project]
*[http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat, Inc.]
*[http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat, Inc.]


[[Category:Linux distributions]]
[[Category:XO software and Fedora]]
[[Category:Sugar]]

Latest revision as of 01:12, 24 August 2016

Fedora was the underlying operating system on the OLPC XO-1, XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4 laptops. This is the Linux distribution (previously called "Fedora Core") developed by Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.

Because it is the Linux base chosen by the OLPC on which to develop Sugar, it is a reference for any other Linux distribution attempting to run on the OLPC XO hardware or present the Sugar UI on a conventional computer.

Each OLPC software release had been based on a version of Fedora, for example 13.2.7 is based on Fedora 18. Over time, the OLPC operating system had moved closer to a "stock" Fedora release with some additional OLPC packages, created with the OS Builder tool.

Installing Sugar

If you have a Fedora distribution running on a computer, you can install the Sugar environment that runs on the XO laptop.

External links