Fedora on XO
Goals
The goal of this project is to create a alternate environment for the XO based on Fedora, giving the users a "traditional linux desktop" instead of or in addition to the Sugar environment (which we'll also include if we can make it all fit). But it won't be as small as the OLPC distro, and is intended at a different audience than the kids in schools. Productive use of this environment on SD cards or USB flash drives will be quite desirable.
See Greg DeKoenigsberg's blog post for further details: http://gregdek.livejournal.com/34038.html
Ideas
Roadmap
This spin will be based on the Fedora Education Spin, but we are going to heavily modify it to fit the needs of OLPC.
The next steps will be:
- selecting packages
- creation of a kickstart file
- trying to get the spin boot on a XO
Here is our GIT repository: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/fedora-xo
It currently contains only kickstart files, but we're experimenting with several solutions, including Fedora's tools and Michael's puritan.
Packages
Those applications might be included, so here is a list among with some alternatives.
| type of application | name of application | name of alternative |
|---|---|---|
| desktop environment | gnome | xfce |
| web browser | firefox | |
| flash implementation | gnash | swfdec |
| java implementation | openjdk | |
| word processor | abiword | |
| spreadsheets | gnumeric | |
| pdf viewer | evince | epdfviewer |
| internet messenger | empathy | pidgin |
| media player | totem | helix |
| child games | gcompris | childsplay |
| geometry software | drgeo |
Other kinds of applications, which might be included:
- news reader
- graphics & painting
- gimp
- inkscape
- tuxpaint
- audio recording
- audacity
- jokosher
- games
- micropolis
- typing tutor
- tuxtype2
- e-mail programm
- thunderbird
- claws-mail
See also
- Installing Debian as an upgrade
- you can run the XFCE window manager on top of a regular XO OS image to get some of the features of a Linux desktop environment.