Seneca breaks silence on Fedora Remix

Former Member over 13 years ago

After a puzzling two months of silence from Seneca with regard to

plans for fixing the withdrawn Fedora Remix, there is a blog post

indicating that work is starting with the beginning of summer,

including fixing the problem with attempting to change the timezone.

http://roottothehead.blogspot.com/2012/05/summer-at-seneca.html

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Former Member over 13 years ago

Chris Tyler posted an update today.
Estimated release date is 20th, but lots of work to do.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2012-July/003631.html
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

That's a very interesting read.
Lots of problems that appear directly related to trying to force options suited to todays desktops onto the comparatively resource light Pi.
You have to wonder what PCI devices they expect to see on the Pi.

Wanting to enable SELinux seems particularly strange. If there's any educational goal left, surely we want to get kids interested and hooked on doing stuff before we teach them to hate SELinux ?
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Problemchild over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

From what I read here he actually says

1) I want it to actually scan for the PCI devices ...yes the RPi doesn't have a PCI expansion but it's quite possible for a
SOC or any other part to have an internal PCI bus that the peripherals are attached to and also not all may be enabled since that GPU device does some configuring before hand so you can't just guess the config.

2) X performance is poor......Yes it is!.... better than it was at day 0 though! ....I think theat X is very useful since most people don't want tto be thrown into a command line these days if they don't have UNIX experience

3) Re SELinux he's actually saying the SELINUX configuration is TOO memory expensive not that he wants to put it in regardless just that the memory burn is a total PITA.

BTW I saw some where that some bunch had got a generic openGL implementation going using the GPU how do we get this back to these guys rather than moaning !!!

Thanks for the Update BTW Coder27
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morgaine over 13 years ago in reply to Problemchild

I see that needing a different SD card for each different image is going to be a major pain in the backside. Pi really needs a network image boot, so that we can store umpteen different images externally and the SD card can remain fixed --- let the VideoCore boot just a network-aware bootstrap, not a Linux kernel.
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jamodio over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

AMEN !!
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Problemchild over 13 years ago in reply to jamodio

I'm wondering if a network aware minikernel would be good for this then ?!
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Problemchild over 13 years ago in reply to jamodio

I'm wondering if a network aware minikernel would be good for this then ?!
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