Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora Core 6 Pre release review
by Luya Tshimbalanga
> - the icon theme is indeed outdated, VERY outdated and missing many icons
The new replacement is incomplete. Bluecurve has a tremendous amount of
icons to be replaced. We (Artwork team) intended to work on as the new
FC6 theme is complete. If you are an artist, you are welcome to
contribute. We would like to further improve the whole look in future
releases.
> - fedora is the slowest Linux distro i've ever used! He is right to
bash on fedora like that, my Intel P4 1Ghz machine with Windoze XP Pro
boots in 7 seconds flat! while my Athon64 X2 3800 Dual Core boots Fedora
Core 5 in a few minutes!!! jesus!
Windows XP design is tightly integrated with the kernel giving the
performance boost. However, the services are intentionaly disabled on
boot and will started after login as user. I personaly don't care about
booting performance.
> - the initial boot text is indeed ugly and geeky. We either have a
full graphical boot, from start to end or we don't have one. Right now
we are half and half, which looks very unfinished and ugly.
I (as Finalzone on that blog) pointed out these text are used for
debugging. As Rahul stated, quiet mode is intentionaly disabled for that
purpose. The mistake the author did is to compare the performance of a
test release with a final version.
> - Compiz was a fiasco as well. We've seen the videos from the Novel
presentation and what we have in fedora is just two effects (out of
20?). Ofcourse it didn't work at first (like it happened with the author
of the review) and even after i got it working i found too many bugs to
actualy keep it running (ctrl-fX keys wouldn't work, couldn't change
virtual desktops with ctrl-left arrow, etc).
The author didn't specify what driver he used to do the effect. His
laptop uses Nvidia videocard which means the effect won't work with open
source driver version because of its lack of 3D hardware acceleration.
He has corrected since then.
> - The fedora sound theme is indeed a joke... thank god its disabled by
default. The GDM beep is... well lets just say its better to be deaf
than hearing the PC speaker beep every time GDM loads.
We need audio effect artist which were not available since the existance
of Fedora Project. Feel free to make sound theme for Fedora Core so you
will be more musicians for the project in a long term. Contributing is
better than whining.
..
Luya Tshimbalanga
--
Fedora Project Contributor
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga
http://www.fedoranews.org
17 years, 6 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora Core 6 Pre release review
by Luya Tshimbalanga
> - the icon theme is indeed outdated, VERY outdated and missing many icons
The new replacement is incomplete. Bluecurve has a tremendous amount of
icons to be replaced. We (Artwork team) intended to work on as the new
FC6 theme is complete. If you are an artist, you are welcome to
contribute. We would like to further improve the whole look in future
releases.
> - fedora is the slowest Linux distro i've ever used! He is right to
bash on fedora like that, my Intel P4 1Ghz machine with Windoze XP Pro
boots in 7 seconds flat! while my Athon64 X2 3800 Dual Core boots Fedora
Core 5 in a few minutes!!! jesus!
Windows XP design is tightly integrated with the kernel giving the
performance boost. However, the services are intentionaly disabled on
boot and will started after login as user. I personaly don't care about
booting performance.
> - the initial boot text is indeed ugly and geeky. We either have a
full graphical boot, from start to end or we don't have one. Right now
we are half and half, which looks very unfinished and ugly.
I (as Finalzone on that blog) pointed out these text are used for
debugging. As Rahul stated, quiet mode is intentionaly disabled for that
purpose. The mistake the author did is to compare the performance of a
test release with a final version.
> - Compiz was a fiasco as well. We've seen the videos from the Novel
presentation and what we have in fedora is just two effects (out of
20?). Ofcourse it didn't work at first (like it happened with the author
of the review) and even after i got it working i found too many bugs to
actualy keep it running (ctrl-fX keys wouldn't work, couldn't change
virtual desktops with ctrl-left arrow, etc).
The author didn't specify what driver he used to do the effect. His
laptop uses Nvidia videocard which means the effect won't work with open
source driver version because of its lack of 3D hardware acceleration.
He has corrected since then.
> - The fedora sound theme is indeed a joke... thank god its disabled by
default. The GDM beep is... well lets just say its better to be deaf
than hearing the PC speaker beep every time GDM loads.
We need audio effect artist which were not available since the existance
of Fedora Project. Feel free to make sound theme for Fedora Core so you
will be more musicians for the project in a long term. Contributing is
better than whining.
..
Luya Tshimbalanga
--
Fedora Project Contributor
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga
http://www.fedoranews.org
17 years, 6 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora Core 6 Pre release review
by Luya Tshimbalanga
> - the icon theme is indeed outdated, VERY outdated and missing many icons
The new replacement is incomplete. Bluecurve has a tremendous amount of
icons to be replaced. We (Artwork team) intended to work on as the new
FC6 theme is complete. If you are an artist, you are welcome to
contribute. We would like to further improve the whole look in future
releases.
> - fedora is the slowest Linux distro i've ever used! He is right to
bash on fedora like that, my Intel P4 1Ghz machine with Windoze XP Pro
boots in 7 seconds flat! while my Athon64 X2 3800 Dual Core boots Fedora
Core 5 in a few minutes!!! jesus!
Windows XP design is tightly integrated with the kernel giving the
performance boost. However, the services are intentionaly disabled on
boot and will started after login as user. I personaly don't care about
booting performance.
> - the initial boot text is indeed ugly and geeky. We either have a
full graphical boot, from start to end or we don't have one. Right now
we are half and half, which looks very unfinished and ugly.
I (as Finalzone on that blog) pointed out these text are used for
debugging. As Rahul stated, quiet mode is intentionaly disabled for that
purpose. The mistake the author did is to compare the performance of a
test release with a final version.
> - Compiz was a fiasco as well. We've seen the videos from the Novel
presentation and what we have in fedora is just two effects (out of
20?). Ofcourse it didn't work at first (like it happened with the author
of the review) and even after i got it working i found too many bugs to
actualy keep it running (ctrl-fX keys wouldn't work, couldn't change
virtual desktops with ctrl-left arrow, etc).
The author didn't specify what driver he used to do the effect. His
laptop uses Nvidia videocard which means the effect won't work with open
source driver version because of its lack of 3D hardware acceleration.
He has corrected since then.
> - The fedora sound theme is indeed a joke... thank god its disabled by
default. The GDM beep is... well lets just say its better to be deaf
than hearing the PC speaker beep every time GDM loads.
We need audio effect artist which were not available since the existance
of Fedora Project. Feel free to make sound theme for Fedora Core so you
will be more musicians for the project in a long term. Contributing is
better than whining.
..
Luya Tshimbalanga
--
Fedora Project Contributor
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga
http://www.fedoranews.org
17 years, 6 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora Core 6 Pre release review
by Luya Tshimbalanga
> - the icon theme is indeed outdated, VERY outdated and missing many icons
The new replacement is incomplete. Bluecurve has a tremendous amount of
icons to be replaced. We (Artwork team) intended to work on as the new
FC6 theme is complete. If you are an artist, you are welcome to
contribute. We would like to further improve the whole look in future
releases.
> - fedora is the slowest Linux distro i've ever used! He is right to
bash on fedora like that, my Intel P4 1Ghz machine with Windoze XP Pro
boots in 7 seconds flat! while my Athon64 X2 3800 Dual Core boots Fedora
Core 5 in a few minutes!!! jesus!
Windows XP design is tightly integrated with the kernel giving the
performance boost. However, the services are intentionaly disabled on
boot and will started after login as user. I personaly don't care about
booting performance.
> - the initial boot text is indeed ugly and geeky. We either have a
full graphical boot, from start to end or we don't have one. Right now
we are half and half, which looks very unfinished and ugly.
I (as Finalzone on that blog) pointed out these text are used for
debugging. As Rahul stated, quiet mode is intentionaly disabled for that
purpose. The mistake the author did is to compare the performance of a
test release with a final version.
> - Compiz was a fiasco as well. We've seen the videos from the Novel
presentation and what we have in fedora is just two effects (out of
20?). Ofcourse it didn't work at first (like it happened with the author
of the review) and even after i got it working i found too many bugs to
actualy keep it running (ctrl-fX keys wouldn't work, couldn't change
virtual desktops with ctrl-left arrow, etc).
The author didn't specify what driver he used to do the effect. His
laptop uses Nvidia videocard which means the effect won't work with open
source driver version because of its lack of 3D hardware acceleration.
He has corrected since then.
> - The fedora sound theme is indeed a joke... thank god its disabled by
default. The GDM beep is... well lets just say its better to be deaf
than hearing the PC speaker beep every time GDM loads.
We need audio effect artist which were not available since the existance
of Fedora Project. Feel free to make sound theme for Fedora Core so you
will be more musicians for the project in a long term. Contributing is
better than whining.
..
Luya Tshimbalanga
--
Fedora Project Contributor
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga
http://www.fedoranews.org
17 years, 6 months
Re: [Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] Fedora Core 6 Pre release review
by Luya Tshimbalanga
> - the icon theme is indeed outdated, VERY outdated and missing many icons
The new replacement is incomplete. Bluecurve has a tremendous amount of
icons to be replaced. We (Artwork team) intended to work on as the new
FC6 theme is complete. If you are an artist, you are welcome to
contribute. We would like to further improve the whole look in future
releases.
> - fedora is the slowest Linux distro i've ever used! He is right to
bash on fedora like that, my Intel P4 1Ghz machine with Windoze XP Pro
boots in 7 seconds flat! while my Athon64 X2 3800 Dual Core boots Fedora
Core 5 in a few minutes!!! jesus!
Windows XP design is tightly integrated with the kernel giving the
performance boost. However, the services are intentionaly disabled on
boot and will started after login as user. I personaly don't care about
booting performance.
> - the initial boot text is indeed ugly and geeky. We either have a
full graphical boot, from start to end or we don't have one. Right now
we are half and half, which looks very unfinished and ugly.
I (as Finalzone on that blog) pointed out these text are used for
debugging. As Rahul stated, quiet mode is intentionaly disabled for that
purpose. The mistake the author did is to compare the performance of a
test release with a final version.
> - Compiz was a fiasco as well. We've seen the videos from the Novel
presentation and what we have in fedora is just two effects (out of
20?). Ofcourse it didn't work at first (like it happened with the author
of the review) and even after i got it working i found too many bugs to
actualy keep it running (ctrl-fX keys wouldn't work, couldn't change
virtual desktops with ctrl-left arrow, etc).
The author didn't specify what driver he used to do the effect. His
laptop uses Nvidia videocard which means the effect won't work with open
source driver version because of its lack of 3D hardware acceleration.
He has corrected since then.
> - The fedora sound theme is indeed a joke... thank god its disabled by
default. The GDM beep is... well lets just say its better to be deaf
than hearing the PC speaker beep every time GDM loads.
We need audio effect artist which were not available since the existance
of Fedora Project. Feel free to make sound theme for Fedora Core so you
will be more musicians for the project in a long term. Contributing is
better than whining.
..
Luya Tshimbalanga
--
Fedora Project Contributor
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga
http://www.fedoranews.org
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-marketing-list] who has some CSS/wiki foo?
by Max Spevack
So I did some minor changes last night to FedoraMain, the front page of
the wiki.
But I think we need to do a lot more to make it look good.
Compare:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
http://www.mozilla.com/
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org
Here's my vision for the front page of our wiki. But I don't have time to
do it myself. So I want to give it to you, and help make it *our* vision.
Expand on it, critisize it, etc.
I think that a comparatively small amount of effort could make a *huge*
difference in the professional look and feel, and ease of use, of our
wiki.
This is only going to look right in plain text email readers:
------------------------------------------------------------
Stuff that comes at the top of the wiki
------------------------------------------------------------
Two column layout
FC6 screenshot Fedora logo
Download FC6
torrents, x86, etc.
Download FC%
torrents, x86, etc.
basically the way it is right now, some sort of box around it to set it
apart from the rest of the FedoraMain
------------------------------------------------------------
Two column layout
Left column, in white Right column, some sort of color bg
Fedora Projects General Information
now we list the "biggest" stuff like FAQ, Communicate,
Projects, with just a few Press queries, etc, one or two
words about each "latest news" blurbs, weekly
reports, etc.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Legal/Trademark
Powered by Dell
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-marketing-list] Brazilian Fedora Project - Numbers!!!
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
More numbers about Brazilian Fedora Project!!
=== Brazilian Ambassadors in Activity ===
=== Founders ===
*Brazil - DF - DavidBarzilay
*Brazil - RJ - RodrigoPadula
*Brazil - PR - RodrigoMenezes
=== Ambassadors ===
Brazil - BA - CristianoFurtado
Brazil - BA - OthonBatista
Brazil - MG - IgorSoares
Brazil - PB - GutembergMedeiros
Brazil - RS - RogerioPereira
Brazil - SC - DiegoZacarao
Brazil - SP - HugoCisneiros
=== Produced materials ===
10.000 Flyers
600 DVDs - Fedora Core 4 - i386
1.250 DVDs - Fedora Core 5 - i386, PPC and 64Bits
1.250 DVD's Envelopes
60 T-shirts - Fedora Project (BLack and White)
2 Banners (90 cm X 120 cm)
=== Big Events in Brazil ===
- FISL 2006 > Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil
Lectures, User Group, Free Meidia
- ENSOL 2006 > João Pessoa - Paraíba - Brazil
Lectures, User Group, Free Meidia, Install Fest
- III Festival de Software Livre da Bahia 2006 > Salvador - Bahia -Brazil
Lectures, User Group, Free Meidia
- FLISOL 2006 > Brasilia - DF - Brazil
Lectures, Free Meidia
Total(4)
=== Brazilian Universities ===
UNIFACS, AREA1, JORGE AMADO, FIB, UNIME, FTC, UNEB, UFBA, UFRJ, UFJF,
GRANBERY, UERJ, UFF, UNIRIO, USP, UFRGS , PUC-RIO, PUC-RS, UNIPAC, CES
Total(20)
=== Brazilian Free Media Project ===
1250 Distributed Dvds - All Brazilian States ( 26 + DC)
i386, PPC and 64Bits
Acre (AC)
Alagoas (AL)
Amapá (AP)
Amazonas (AM)
Bahia (BA)
Brasília (DF)
Ceará (CE)
Espírito Santo (ES)
Goiás (GO)
Mato Grosso (MT)
Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)
Maranhão (MA)
Minas Gerais (MG)
Pará (PA)
Paraná (PR)
Paraíba (PB)
Pernambuco (PE)
Piauí (PI)
Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Rio Grande do Norte (RN)
Rio Grande do Sul (RS)
Rondônia (RO)
Roraima (RR)
Santa Catarina (SC)
São Paulo (SP)
Sergipe (SE)
Tocantins (TO)
=== Brazilian Fedora Project - Sites ==
www.projetofedora.org (Docs,Projects)= 600 users
www.fedora.org.br (Fedora Forum) = 4150 users
=== Discussion Lists ===
#fedora-users-br = 270 Users
=== Orkut Community ===
Fedora Core Brasil :: 2100 users
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Brazilian Fedora Ambassador
http://www.projetofedora.org
17 years, 6 months
[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: [Ambassadors] Ohio Linux Fest 2006 Summary
by David Barzilay
Hi Jeff,
Huge kudos to you, Joe Connelly and Brian Pepple!!!
Awesome pics, BTW ;))
Great work,
--
db
> The Ohio Linux Fest held this past Saturday, September 30th was a great
> success! The booth came together very nicely - we had Fedora T-Shirts,
> Stickers, Core 5 DVDs and informational handouts available at the booth.
> There were three of us primarily working the booth - Joe Connelly and
> Brian Pepple. Tom "Spot" Callaway was also there, originally to hang
> out with us at the Fedora booth, but ended up working the Red Hat booth
> right next to us - though he was still a great help to us.
>
> The announced crowd was just over 1200 people, between presentations the
> aisles were quite packed. Our booth saw lots of foot traffic with
> people ranging from new to Linux to having used it since Red Hat 6.x or
> earlier and wondering what Fedora was up to.
>
> Nearly all comments were favorable to Fedora, many people were running
> Fedora in some fashion - either on their own PCs or on servers for
> businesses they worked for. There were a few recurring questions
> through the day, some of which where:
>
> * Yum is slow was one of the complaints we kept hearing. It was a
> pleasure to let people know that there was an updated yum in Core 6 that
> was aimed at taking on any speed issues.
>
> * I had several questions regarding the Fedora Directory Server - mainly
> in regards to features it offered. There certainly seems to be interest
> in this.
>
> * We heard what I thought to be a number of comments alluding to an
> animosity between the Fedora Project and Red Hat. I am not quite sure
> why that thought is out there.
>
> * There were several questions about who we worked for, etc. It was
> nice to reply with we were just members of the Fedora Project community
> helping out. I think it really helped reinforce that there is a lot of
> room for community involvement in the project.
>
> * And of course there were lots of when is Core 6 coming out and what
> new features will be in it.
>
> Later in the afternoon we also had a "Birds of a Feather" session. Tom
> Callaway was there and was an excellent and knowledgeable speaker and it
> was great to have him there. Some of the items brought up were Fedora
> and multimedia (mp3's, DVD playback, etc), Xen and virtualization and
> new features and improvements in Core 6.
>
> All in all it was a great show. Lots of fun for everyone involved I
> think. I was very happy with how the booth turned out and I think
> Fedora was very well represented there. I want to thank all the people
> that helped get me the materials and information I needed for this event
> - including Max and David Barzilay.
>
> And last but not least, here are some of the pictures from the show (I
> may be adding more as I receive them from the others):
>
> http://www.elfshadow.net/ohiolinuxfest2006/
>
> --Jeffrey
>
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> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list
>
>
--
David Barzilay
Embaixador Global do Fedora
Embaixador Remoto para o Brasil
17 years, 6 months
