Fedora for UMPC, tablets, PDA etc. ?

[Anuj Verma (Kevin)]

s/Nokai/Nokia

On 1/13/07, Anuj Verma (Kevin) <kevin.verma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Reading the below(bottom) mentioned story I am curious to know more
> point of views, "FC6 shrunk to 150MB" !
>
> This time while Fedora 7, is being planned and discussed and while UMPC
> is getting lot popular, I am just curious to know point of views here,
> if this is a good time for Fedora to also host a UMPC project ?
>
> Does it seems Fedora be good for UMPC types example, Orgami, Nokai 770/800 etc.
>
> Hoping that the lessons and improvements gained out of OLPC can be put
> out for a wider community cattering, development & cross pollination.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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>
> http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007010902326NWHWEV
>
> "The software is based on Fedora Cora 6, put on an diet to reduce it to
> 150 MB, and leverages Python heavily. According to Bletsas, both
> Microsoft (WinCE) and Apple (OS X) offered their operating systems, but
> neither fit the footprint or security requirements that the XO demanded.
> In addition, the closed-source nature of those operating systems wasn't
> a good fit to the OLPC philosophy.
>
> The application environment looks nothing like a typical X-Window GUI
> that you or I have ever seen. Written menus are totally replaced with
> icons. In one example screen, the child can view all the other meshed
> XOs around them (the mesh is good point to point to about 600 meters),
> and see what activities the other children are involved in. Almost all
> activities can be done collaboratively. So, for example, multiple
> children can work on the same document or browse the web together. The
> distributions are fully open source, and can be downloaded and played
> with now at laptop.org. Also included will be a Gecko-based browser that
> Bletsas told me should be capable of displaying Flash-enabled web
> pages."
>