On 13 November 2010 13:05, Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrot...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Back in April, there was a long discussion ( > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/thread.html#28118 ) > about RHEL6 as a base for an LTS OLPC/Sugar base. > I was wondering if with the arrival of RHEL6 these thoughts are > re-entertained, at least for the x86 machines. > By the time RHEL6 is outdated most of the x86 XOs will be dead or close to > it. So such a move now would free any resources that should be doing fedora > catch up for the XO-1s and XO-1.5s and allow unobstructed software > development of the ARM-based
I think Martin is keen on it for the XS, but for the XO we really need closer distro integration than what we can achieve with RHEL. The biggest issue is that only certain Red Hat employees can push packages and updates to RHEL. If OLPC were to use it, we'd have to be very dependent on those employees, or do a lot more package/distro forking than present. The working I'm doing at the moment (which will become more community-visible soon) has the aim of making jumping between Fedora versions less painful than before. Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel