[Sugar-devel] Sugar Developer MINUTES

[Simon Schampijer]

On 05/22/2009 07:06 PM, David Farning wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:43 PM, NoiseEHC<NoiseEHC at freemail.hu>  wrote:
>> Are there any plans to port Sugar to the XO-1 or will it be the job of
>> OLPC so it will be effectively abandoned?
>
> Sugar sits on top of standard linux distributions.
>
> The challenge in this instance is on the shoulders of the hardware
> vendor to push the necessary patches, or maintain the fork, necessary
> to take advantage of specialized hardware.
>
> david

Right, Sugar will work on Fedora - and the plan of OLPC is to use Fedora 
12 in the future and get all the diffs (like Kernel) into Fedora 
mainline. The "only" job of Sugar itself in order to run on the XO are 
to keep the memory and cpu consumption low.

I hope this anwers your question,
    Simon