Re: Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?

["Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson gmail com>]

> Smaller form-factor machines such as the Asus eeePC have gotten a fair
> bit of the tech press spotlight of late.  Have you bought one with the
> idea of running Fedora on it?  Or have you thought about doing so?
>
> I'm trying to gauge the interest in starting a SIG with the purpose of
> making distribution changes to make running on these devices more
> streamlined and have more work "out of the box".  This will involve both
> the necessary work to just get the hardware working well with Fedora of
> today as well as possibly a spin that is explicitly targeted at some of
> the constraints of the hardware down the line[1].
>
> If enough people are interested, I'd like to find a time later this week
> or next week to have an initial meeting to kind of figure out what
> bounds we want to tackle things in for the first pass.  Hardware that I
> think definitely falls into the scope would be: netbooks, UMPCs, MIDs,
> maybe the XO?   I've started up a page on the wiki
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz/Netbooks) that people can edit
> and then we can go from there

What is the status of this SIG? I presume there's enough interest, and
that the hold up is more than likely the infrastructure issues. Is
there a planned name for the SIG? I would suggest something quite
general like "Fedora Mini SIG" rather than something that has netbook
in the name.

Peter