After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Fedora 11 Screenshot Tour
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour
I recently installed Fedora (32-bit) on an older box. The installer is
pretty sweet, though the partition scheme is different enough from Debian
that I decided to let the installer do the partitioning for me.
I haven't used it much, but there was one glitch: I wanted to install
mrxvt, but when I used the GUI for it, it asked for the root password, and
yet wouldn't let the install proceed.
So I ended up doing "# yum install mrxvt" from the command-line.
The magazine also had the 64-bit edition on DVD, but I haven't tried that
one yet.
> OLPC goes the full Fedora
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Developer Chris Ball has announced that the upcoming OLPC XO-1.5 laptop
>| software release will be based on Fedora 11. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
>| project is a non-profit organisation who's mission is to provide children
>| across the world with low cost laptops for self-education.
> `----
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/OLPC-goes-the-full-Fedora--/news/113315
Also:
http://www.h-online.com/open/OLPC-XO-2-may-use-ARM-based-processors--/news/112836
According to several reports, the next version of the OLPC (XO-2) may
stop using x86 processors and switch to ARM-based processors to improve
battery life.
I'm all for that. The battery runs down faster than I would have expected,
even when the machine is suspended-to-RAM.
Also at that link:
The developers want the XO-2 to be able to dual boot Linux and a full
Windows OS, to give users a choice. According to Nicholas Negroponte, the
leader of the OLPC project, they are in talks with Microsoft to develop a
full version of the Windows OS for the XO-2.
Microsoft will, of course, eventually subvert that area of the market, too.
You can count on it.
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Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
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