Mobility

Fedora Mobility

Fedora Mobility is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and tablets, it could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs), connected TVs and other devices. The SIG became mostly inactive until 2020, when it was resurrected to work on software for the Pine64 Pinephone.

Mission

Fedora Mobility is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at ensuring that the hardware used in devices such as Netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) work out of the box with Fedora. It could also be used to produce various spins for Gnome Mobile development, the MeeGo™ project, KDE Plasma NetBook workspace etc

Getting help and getting involved

At the moment Fedora Mobility is primarily maintained by two people. They are Peter Robinson and Sebastian Dziallas. We need more help!

We have a couple of communications channels as well as the usual Fedora channels. We have a mailing list which you can subscribe to here and there's a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode: #fedora-mobility.

If you have no idea how to help us, here are some proposals where we need help:

• Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
• Reviewers: Only a few people are doing reviews. Help us with reviews so that more packages could be included.
• Testers: If you have a small device and use Fedora on it file bugs and add them as a blocker for the Fedora Mobility Tracker Bug
• Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with Fedora Mobility related bugs.

Current Status

Fedora Mobility is moving forward. We now incorporate the MeeGo™ NetBook UX and Sugar user interfaces in two official Fedora Spins.

• The stock Fedora works well on most netbooks
• Fedora 13 includes two official Fedora Mobility Spins
• The dependency reduction is an ongoing project and always will be.

Official Fedora Mobility Spins for Fedora 13

• Moblin 2.1
• Sugar on a Stick

Approved Fedora Mobility Spins for Fedora 14

• Fedora NetBook spin
• Sugar on a Stick

To the future and beyond

Moving forward Fedora Mobility will continue to support and run the latest Sugar interface. We have some OLPC XO-1s and XO-1.5s and are working to see what is required to get the XO-1 and the XO 1.5 fully supported in vanilla Fedora.

We're reviewing the MeeGo™ NetBook UX with the intention of including the MeeGo™ NetBook UX into a future release of Fedora replacing the current Moblin™ UX. This should be initially completed for Fedora 14.

The KDE team are working with Fedora Mobility to support the KDE Plasma NetBook interface for Fedora 14.

ARM platform support is also on the agenda but that needs more investigation. With the introduction of ARM based SmartBooks and Tablets it will become and important platform for Fedora Mobility and Fedora in general.

Other ideas for the Fedora Mobility project include support for more embedded architectures as well as Spins or Remixes for MIDS or Set Top Boxes such as a Moovida Media Centre spin.

Related Fedora projects

• The ARM secondary architecture project.

Devices

An overview of the hardware found in the various Netbook/Nettop devices can be found on the Hardware page.

Some of the devices include:

• Netbooks
  • Acer Aspire One
  • Dell Inspiron Mini 9
  • Eee PC
• Fit-PC
• OLPC XO-1 and XO-1.5

Links

The upstream projects of interest to Fedora Mobility include
The upstream sugar related projects:

• Sugar Labs
• One Laptop Per Child

Netbook releated projects:

• Moblin website
• MeeGo website

Other related projects:

• GNOME Mobile