Presenting Fedora Mini – Lightweight Linux for netbooks

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Following the path of Ubuntu, which released Ubuntu NBR few months back, Fedora has also come up with special version customized to netbook environment.

The Fedora Mini SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), it could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs).

Right now, it supports EEE PCs, Aspire One and Dell Mini 9

It is not available for public download at the moment. However, if you are using Fedora 12 (alpha) at the moment, you can test it by typing  yum groupinstall “Moblin Desktop Environment” and re-login.

Here is the list of processors which is supported currently by the Fedora Mini:

• Intel Atom 230 (Diamondville) 1.6 GHz CPU – Fully supported.
• Intel Atom 330 (Diamondville) Dual Core 1.6 GHz CPU – Fully supported.
• Intel Atom N270 (Diamondville) 1.6 GHz CPU – Fully supported.
• Intel Atom N280 (Diamondville) 1.66 GHz CPU – Fully supported.
• Intel Atom Z5x0 (Silverthorne) 800Mhz, 1Ghz, 1.1Ghz, 1.2Ghz, 1.33Ghz, 1.6Ghz, 1.83Ghz, 2Ghz – Fully supported. NB: This processor contains the GPU onboard, which isn’t supported. See Poulsbo entry below.
• Intel Celeron M (Dothan) 630 MHz, 900 MHz CPU – Fully supported.
• Via C7-M 1.0GHz, 1.2GHz, 1.6GHz CPU – Fully supported.
• AMD Geode LX – Fully supported.

[More info here] [via itrunsonlinux]

Note: Netbooks with GMA 500 chipset are NOT supported at the moment, although it may be supported in the future, but not for now.

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