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 "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 F14 for XO page 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
