Red Hat Commits To MIT's $100 Laptop

[Mike McCarty]

Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> On 2/1/06, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net> wrote:
> 
>>Red Hat commits to MIT's $100 laptop
>>
>>It also wants open-source developers to help slim down Fedora Core as
>>part of the effort
> 
> 
> unbuntu fits into roughly 1.6GB disk space.
> redhat 9 fit into 1.57GB disk space
> 
> so ... Whats the real issue here?

[snip]

You apparently didn't bother actually to *read* the article.
Helps actually to read it before commenting on it.

 From the article...

> But the problem isn’t so much recoding Fedora so it's a “hacked-up,
> skinny” Linux -- even though that wouldn't be difficult to do, said
> Evans; the problem is making sure that it's optimized for the laptop’s
> nonstandard, almost whimsical specifications. To keep costs down and
> make it more durable, the laptop will eschew a hard drive in favor of
> 1GB of flash memory, on which the operating system, other software and
> all local data must be stored.

I'd think this also means no ext2 or ext3 FS. Or any other
FS which keeps track of last access time.

Mike
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