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It would be very feasible, as long as you know where the kernel sources are (and since there is a Fedora build for it, this should not be a problem). Just follo
by ollieparanoid 7y ago
It would be very feasible, as long as you know where the kernel sources are (and since there is a Fedora build for it, this should not be a problem). Just follow the porting guide and it will show up as new device in pmbootstrap: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Porting_to_a_new_device https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Porting_to_a_new_device
Regarding touch-friendlieness: users can also pick user interfaces that are not optimized for touch input during the installation, such as xfce4, mate, i3wm.
- RodgerTheGreat 7y agoCool! I'll do some reading. Might make for a good project next time I'm on vacation.
- joshumax 7y agoFWIW I maintain a port of Debian stable for my XO-1 with IceWM and it's extremely resource-light on the aging OLPC hardware. I'd be happy to throw up the build scripts on GitHub if anyone is interested.
- RodgerTheGreat 7y agoI would absolutely be interested! There was a great deal of experimentation with alternate distros when the XO-1 was first released, but virtually everything from that era has succumbed to link-rot.
- 0815test 7y agoDoesn't the XO-1 have only 256MB RAM? That's definitely enough to boot Debian Stretch and get to a desktop, but I'm skeptical that it's useful for any real work. (Of course, keeping hardware in use even as software requirements increase is kind of a hard problem; Debian itself used to have its own projects - Emdebian 'Grip' and 'Crush' - to try and address that issue with a broadly Alpine- or pmOS-like approach, but these were abandoned a long time ago unfortunately. The whole "embedded" Linux space is a bit of a mess, and a broad, community-led project like Debian could have a positive impact there.)
- MartijnBraam 7y agothe N900 is also 256MB ram, it's not ideal but it's usable, just add a lot of swap.