F11 for XO-1
OLPC have developed a new Fedora based operating system for the XO-1. It includes various improvements and modernizations over the previous released version for the XO-1 hardware used many deployments and donors.
It is available as Release 10.1.2. This release is also available for the XO-1.5 laptop hardware.
Development releases
There have been development builds towards a possible 10.1.3, see Releases and "New 10.1.3 build os355 for XO-1 and XO-1.5" mailing list discussion and the directory http://build.laptop.org/10.1.3/xo-1/
There is very preliminary, not even pre-alpha, work on builds based on Fedora 14 and Linux kernel 2.35, see Releases, F14 for XO pages and mailing list discussion.
See Also
OLPC is not the only one making XO-1 operating system builds. You can also obtain builds from others in the wider community:
- Bernie Innocenti, Sugar Labs, Paraguay Educa and Activity Central, in collaboration with Plan Ceibal, and other volunteers are maintaining a build of Sugar 0.88 on Fedora 11 for XO-1, also known as the "Dextrose" project. See more at Sugar Labs.
- Steven M. Parrish maintains a build, see more at Sugar Labs