OLPC Releases Fedora 9-Based Linux Distro for the XO
Linked by Rahul on Fri 17th Oct 2008 23:24 UTC
Fedora Core OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project originally based on Fedora 7 has done a revamp of its core system to Fedora 9 and added a number of new interesting features and many bug fixes. These include updates on applications on the XO laptop called activities such as home view and journal, new control panel for common system settings, a update system, better backup integration and many others.
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I wish...
by fithisux on Sat 18th Oct 2008 16:11 UTC
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the same happened with Ingenic MIPS small laptops. Good news in the netbook era, good news for students.

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8.2 Release of XO
by adricnet on Mon 20th Oct 2008 12:20 UTC
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8.2 has lots of bug fixes and new features as noted and is indeed now F9 based. This is the release that will go out on the XOs for G1G1 2008, starting in the US on 17 Nov at amazon.com/xo.

Release notes are at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0

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