[Cialug] Fwd: Wireless before the fact

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Mon Sep 8 10:48:51 CDT 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 10:47 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Fwd: Wireless before the fact
> Actually I think it's going to become more common.  As people try and
> get "standard" Linux distributions installed on smaller platforms like
> cellphones, netbooks, and the OLPC XO they need to slim down the core
> of the distribution to get it to fit within the constraints of those
> systems.  The real challenge is to do that in a way that doesn't
> compromise the features of the main distribution when installed on
> more capable systems or add more work maintaining "forks" of core
> packages like the kernel or glibc.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
>

Or, they could just use Debian ;)

-Nate


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