OLPC 'upstream'

[Peter Robinson]

> With glibc, most of the size is actually taken up by all the locale
> information, which can certainly be stripped out for OLPC.  The plan
> here is to use as much of Fedora Core as possible (including glibc) and
> only if there are severe space issues rethink that strategy.  There
> really aren't many space issues however.  The moderately slimmed JFFS2
> image is under 250MB now, and there's still lots to be culled.  I think
> the target is around 150MB - 200MB for the base OS and desktop library
> stack.  That's quite reachable.

Its almost similar to the maemo project in style where they've put a
low end desktop style spec into a handheld. It has all the usuals like
glibc, gtk (and co) gstreamer, X, window manager etc and fits in 128M
I think so I wouldn't have thought it would be a major issue.

Peter