With glibc, most of the size is actually taken up by all the locale
information, which can certainly be stripped out for OLPC. The plan
here is to use as much of Fedora Core as possible (including glibc) and
only if there are severe space issues rethink that strategy. There
really aren't many space issues however. The moderately slimmed JFFS2
image is under 250MB now, and there's still lots to be culled. I think
the target is around 150MB - 200MB for the base OS and desktop library
stack. That's quite reachable.
Its almost similar to the maemo project in style where they've put a
low end desktop style spec into a handheld. It has all the usuals like
glibc, gtk (and co) gstreamer, X, window manager etc and fits in 128M
I think so I wouldn't have thought it would be a major issue.
Peter