[Rule] Red Hat wants open-source developers to help slim down Fedora Core as part of MIT's $100 laptop

[Philip Rhoades]

Marco,

I hope you get a good response from them - surely they will take
advantage of all the work that has been done so far?

Regards,

Phil.


On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 07:53 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 13:27:09 PM +0000, Liam Proven  lproven at gmail.com  wrote:
> 
> > "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 (OLPC) group, Fedora will need to
> > go on a crash diet, concedes its overseer, Red Hat Inc."
> > 
> > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,108217,00.html
> > 
> 
> This is great news. I was waiting for something like this to happen,
> but not by Red Hat itself. I am quite skeptical for a lot of reason
> about the OLPC idea, but when I first read of it I *did* think "well,
> if nothing else it *will* force Linux packagers and developers to do
> things more efficiently, and *any* limited computer will benefit from
> it".
> 
> Reading that this could happen straight in Fedora, that is some
> professional could finally do what we started doing part time 4 years
> before them, is even better. As Larry Wall said, laziness is one of
> the great virtues of each programmer!
> 
> Sure enough, I *am* going to write to Red Hat on behalf of RULE,
> pointing out all the work in the same direction that Franz and Michael
> before him did.  And I encourage any other list member to do the same!
> 
> We're living in interesting times!
> 
> Marco
> 
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