OK, I know I'll probably get flamed here from certain ITT people, I always seems to get that. . . so I'll try to just post the info and then I'll get lost again . . .

I just want to let the developers here, who don't know this already, that an armel version of Fedora 8 is now available for download as a root file system, and that (at least parts, I haven't tried much yet) it works on the Nokia tablets!

Hopefully, for those people who believe that true Open Source is the way to go, this can be a great alternative to Maemo.

The Fedora developers involved in this project are committed to the armel platform (armel in general, NOT necessarily Nokia tablets, if fact so far they have not been discussed much AFAIK) AND hopefully have the resources and developers to carry it forward with all the available distro packages in a way that so far has not been done with other armel distributions .

They need the help of others, however. Open Source is a two way street, and even the folks here have no great desire for an RPM-based tablet distro should consider helping them. This can benefit everyone as packages which work in the Fedora version can easily be ported to Debian.

The developers are asking for any help you desire to do, even just downloading the rootfs, chrooting into it, testing the included packages to make certain they work correctly on Nokia tablets, and then posting your results to the mailing list.

If you are interested in the project you can get more information from the Fedora ARM Project Wiki

For those interested in trying the root file system you can get it here..