Fedora Linux

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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.

Because it is the Linux base chosen by the OLPC on which to develop Sugar, it is a reference for any other 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 build log.

Efforts to rebase to Fedora 9 are underway, targeted at the 8.2.0 release. Development efforts took place in the olpc3 stream but were merged into joyride as of build joyride-2072.

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Language Support

Fedora Core 6 uses the SCIM (Smart Common Input Framework) system to support multiple IMEs and keyboard layouts for multiple writing systems and languages. This includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other languages.

Installing Sugar

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 Core 6
• Sugar on Fedora Core 5

See also

• Fedora Project
• Installing Fedora Core

External Links

• The Fedora Project
• Red Hat, Inc.