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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 underlying operating system on the OLPC XO laptop. This is the Linux distribution (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]] attempting to run on the XO-1 hardware or present the [[Sugar]] UI on a conventional computer.

== Fedora versions ==

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

The transition to Fedora 7 happened in 2007 before the [[OLPC Trial-2 Software Release Notes|Trial 2]] milestone (build 542).

So the operating system in the "ship.1" and "update.1" streams of releases was Fedora 7 , as you can see in the [http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/latest/devel_jffs2/build.log latest update.1 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.

== 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 ==
*[[Installing Fedora Core]]


== External links ==
== External links ==
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*[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