7 Apr
2008
7 Apr
'08
11:42 p.m.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
But is an Enterprise distro really the right fit for something like the OLPC project? Or the embedded market?
yes, its the perfect fit.
Did you read the specs? http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml
CentOS5 in 256 Mbytes? 1 Gbyte "disk?"
(I don't think the instruction set is quite as advertised there, see the datasheet it links to).
I see something like Ubuntu or Debian being a better fit for the low end machines.>
No, you dont want to redo a port every 6 months for the embedded markets. The whole point is fire-and-forget capability for those sort of roles.
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/software/specs.shtml
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