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[[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.

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 ==
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]]
** (earlier) [[Sugar on Fedora Core 6]], [[Sugar on Fedora Core 5]]

== See also ==
*[[Fedora on XO]] to run a more standard Fedora desktop

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

[[Category:Linux distributions]]

Revision as of 22:23, 16 December 2008

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