On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:02 PM, <da...@lang.hm> wrote: >> so after the 8.2.1 release the plan is to just switch to standard Linux >> distros? > > What follows is my understanding of what Ed and cjb mean when they > talk about future releases... > > Instead of a "9.1" done in the old way, staff and volunteers set their > eyes on Fedora 11, and ... > > - help ensure there is testing and polish of F-11 on the XO hw > - help ensure there is testing and polish on the packages we care > about (Sugar!) > - build images (and help others build images) based on a F-11 spin > - post-release fixes and polish are channeled via the Fedora updates stream > > it's very likely that the process will need some tiny bits of rigging > that don't belong to Fedora. Something similar happens with the XS. > Creating the 'olpc' user, setting gdm to boot straight into Sugar, > building the image in jffs2 or ubifs -- such steps of configuration > can be done in the %post script of a livecd or pungi kickstart.
the first step is to track down the remaining XO only things (power management is the big one I can think of at the moment), and flush the remaining patches that are in the build for hardware functionality (there was a short thread right after the downsizing was announced where I asked some questions about this, but the people who had the answers were busy looking for other jobs) David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel