OS Changes

This page is a work-in-progress.

The following packages need changes for OLPC

firstboot
In OLPC we probably want something similar to this but likely with different characteristics
Do we need to have the user accept one or more licenses? (Fedora does that)
Should the laptops be password protected? Maybe just a simple 4-digit pin code?
Having the user actually do auth is very useful for software installation to guard again malware; we can ask the user to auth when installing software and only on succesful auth we allow software installation
Is written in Python; not sure we want to pull in the entire Python and pygtk stack for just this
GConf2
Wants to use D-BUS patches, see [1]
Rationale: wants to avoid pulling in ORBit2 and bonobo
Upstream Fedora probably wants these patches too
gnome-vfs2
Wants to use D-BUS patches, see [2]
Rationale: wants to avoid pulling in ORBit2 and bonobo
Upstream Fedora probably wants these patches too

The following packages are specific to OLPC

Packages we want to avoid

ORBit2
libbonobo
metacity
To be replaced by Matchbox, see [4]
Rationale: Limited screen area and limited physical memory. Wants only to run a single app at a time. TODO: OLPCUserInterfaceRationale

OLPC/OSChanges