Fedora People etc
by Jonathan Roberts
Hi all,
A while ago some people suggested that it would be good to do some
marketing work for the stuff that goes on around Fedora the
distribution, like the web space of Fedora People...
Anybody had any thoughts on what would be a good approach to go with
this? Seeing as Fedora 8's out the door now, seems like a good time to
get some information about it out.
Best wishes,
Jon
16 years, 4 months
Fedora 8: What did they DO?!
by Rahul Sundaram
"Hi
http://distrogue.blogspot.com/2007/11/fedora-8-what-did-they-do.html
"I tried out Fedora 8 Test 3. It was atrocious. :-) It was slow,
bloated, laggy, ugly, and had bad hardware detection. But something huge
happened between the test and the final release, because Fedora 8
absolutely rocks."
Pros:
-Sweet artwork
-Completely FOSS
-Enormous software selection
-Decent performance for once
Cons:
-Assorted quirks in hardware detection
-Somewhat long install
Overall: 4.3/5- A solid release from Fedora, for once. :-)
Rahul
16 years, 4 months
Distrowatch maintainer reviews Fedora 8
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
A very positive review but there a number of small niggles mentioned
which I hope to respond a bit later.
Digg It:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Impressions_of_Fedora_8
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071119#review
"It was also the first time in years that I used a Red Hat product; as
far as I can remember, I haven't installed any on a production box since
Red Hat Linux 9 and even that was just a simple mail server. But the
Fedora of today is a very different operating system - not only is it
one of the most innovative distributions around, it is now also a
well-oiled community project with increasing participation of
third-party developers and volunteer contributors."
"Although Fedora 8 isn't perfect (which distribution is?), it comes a
lot closer to delivering a superb desktop experience than one would
expect from a company whose business is focused almost exclusively on
the server market. Great job overall and a well-deserved 8.5 out of 10."
Rahul
16 years, 4 months
Machines roll out at Bijra High school
by subhodip biswas
Hi !
Many of you may be aware of Bijra High School Project
[http://www.dgplug.org/intro/bijra] [http://bijra.dgplug.org] of
dgplug [http://www.dgplug.org] .
On 15th November 2007 we had a grand inauguration of the project. The
initial idea was to open the world of computing to poor students .
This has been done using completely free and opensource softwares.
WBUT (West Bengal University of Technology ) and L2C2 Technology lend
us a helping by providing few computers to the school.
An LTSP server running fedora 7 along with few old PIII machines has
been deployed. Not only that as most students lack proper English
knowledge so the whole implementation has been done using bengali
(native language ) BN_IN locale .
The area also lack a proper internet connection so kiwix (offline
wikipedia), wordnet (a dictionary dump) , project gutenburg dvd dump (
collection of english classics) are among the few softwares
implemented to provide a complete education setup . So this help them
not only in learning computers but also in computer aided learning.
--
Regards
Subhodip Biswas
Fedora ambassador
West Bengal, India
GPG key : FAEA34AB
Server : pgp.mit.edu
http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com
http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas
16 years, 4 months