F14 for XO

Status

As of late 2010, OLPC has started working on a rebase of the OLPC OS platform onto Fedora 14, for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops.

The build is relatively stable but has some obvious bugs, and lacks testing.

We are looking for experienced testers to help find and report bugs. (This can be done Via olpcand sugar bug trackers)

More concrete plans for release scope and schedule are expected to be finalized in late December 2010.

Download

Development builds are available here:

http://build.laptop.org/F14/

New builds are announced on the devel mailing list.

To install from OpenFirmware on an unlocked XO-1.5, download the .zd file to a USB disk and run:

ok fs-update u:\osXX.zd

To install from OpenFirmware on an unlocked XO-1, download the .onu and .uim files and run:

ok update-nand u:\osXX.onu

New features

This list is unlikely to grow significantly going forward - we're looking to focus on stablization and get this out the door.

• Fedora 14
• Sugar 0.90
• GNOME 2.32
• Linux 2.6.35.9
• XO-1 switched from jffs2 to partitioned image: jffs2 boot, ubifs root
• XO-1.5 switched from ext3 to ext4
• Old OS images are not retained after olpc-update: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-September/029889.html
• Activation initramfs split from "run" initramfs (for faster boot)
• "Run" initramfs slimmed down to 1.9mb (no python in any non-activation bootpath) (for faster boot)
• Package list trimmed for a smaller image (even though we've likely still grown from the F11 days, as Fedora gets bigger and bigger)