Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Feb 2006 18:38 UTC, submitted by Moule
Fedora Core, a popular flavor of Linux being developed by the open-source community, is hardly hefty by today's operating system standards. But to fit the tight specs for the $100 laptop being designed by MIT's One-Lap-Per-Child group, Fedora will need to go on a crash diet, concedes its overseer, Red Hat. The Linux software maker confirmed today that it has donated $2 million [EUR 1.65 million] to the OLPC and joined as a corporate member and said it plans to put some of its brightest engineers to the task of slimming down Fedora before the laptops debut in early 2007.
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So the poor kids will get a computer with an OS that is non maintained after 6 months....poor kids!
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That's why special arrangements are probably made.
All in all, it is a very good direction. Red Hat has been out of the marketing buzz spotlight lately, but they are pushing some very interesting projects:
- Systemtap, a framework easing collection of information about the running kernel for perfomance and functionality diagnosis.
- Frysk, a system monitoring and debugging tool. The use cases show some neat examples: http://sourceware.org/frysk/usecases/
- A free (as in freedom) Java platform, based on GCJ plus classpath. Works very well for non-Swing, and non-AWT applications. A good match with SWT or gnome-java.
- Speeding up YUM, and they wrote a up2date replacement for YUM, pup.
- The Fedora directory server.
- The GFS cluster filesystem.
All in all very interesting for developers and enterprises. Over time Fedora/RHEL, and other distributions, have grown quite heavy as a result. Not much of a problem for enterprises, but it is for kids having $100 laptops, or other people on a tight budget. It is good to see that they are addressing this.
Hopefully they will also take in account (if possible) that kids in a third world country can have huge potential if the tools that we use are also available to them. That means that they have to take it further than just providing a stripped-down version of Fedora.
My hopes are quite high