Re: Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 35, Issue 20
by Clint Savage
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:52:11 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] release announcement talking points
> (HURRY!)
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> Cc: fedora-marketing-list <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com>
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> Let me take a shot on-list, since we're more likely to see engagement this
> way IMHO:
>
> Big Message #1: REMIX. Fedora is now remixable. Add your own packages,
> remove packages you don't like, build your own distro and share it with
> the world. Let a thousand distros bloom.
>
> Big Message #2: APPLIANCES. The new tools for building Fedora make it
> *dead simple* for any reasonably experienced Linux admin to create their
> own custom distribution. Ideal for ISVs who want to build an appliance
> around their own product. Build an RPM, identify the minimal number of
> packages needed to make an appliance around that RPM, and then build a
> distro and a live image. Easy as pie.
>
> These are essentially the same message -- but they hit two different
> audiences. The first message is "consumer-y", the second is
> "enterprise-y".
>
> --g
>
>
What about these talking points?
1. First Fedora distribution with LiveCD capability.
2. KVM and virtualization capability
3. Extended wireless functionality (iwl3945 for example)
4. Fedora 7 Beauty (referring to the theme)
I'm sure there are others, but this is what just crossed my mind.
Cheers
--
Clint Savage
Fedora Ambassador, Utah
Utah Open Source Conference
September 6-8, 2007
http://www.utosc.org
16 years, 11 months
Vote for the (probable) name of Fedora 7!
by Bill Nottingham
The board has sent a list of suggested names for Fedora 7 to our legal
department, and they have responded with the names that have passed preliminary
legal approval.
Please vote for your favorite choice at:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/vote.cgi
The choices are 'Lee', 'Sherman', 'Nothing', 'Cylon', 'Moonshine', 'Siegfried'.
You will need to log in with your Fedora account system user/password. Voting
will be open until 2007-05-25 00:00:00 UTC. Thanks to Toshio Kuratomi for
getting this set up.
We apologize for the short voting timeframe - final legal approval can take
up to five days, and we'd really like to avoid slipping solely for the name
of the release. If there end up being legal issues with the name selected, the
Board will decide on the name. (Who knows, could end up being Zod 2: Electric
Zod-a-loo).
Bill
16 years, 11 months
Metrics for F7
by chasd
I hope this is on-topic for this list, apologies if not.
After reading the latest ( now much improved ) Fedora Weekly News, I
followed a link to Mr. Spevack's blog. I took the time to review some
older posts, one where he spoke of the 2 million mark of FC6 users.
Although I was aware of that information, it sparked a thought.
My question :
Once F7 comes out, will those unique IP address for FC6 be compared
to the F7 data, so when counted F7 users reach 2 million ( or
more ! ), the people that were FC6 users will be separated out as
upgrade users, not "new to Fedora" users.
Likely this has been discussed somewhere before, but I haven't seen
it, or it is important to me and no one else.
Charles Dostale
System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com/
824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265
16 years, 11 months
I'm back!
by Pawel Sadowski
Hi guys!
I'm writing to inform you that I'm already back after my exams. I have
5170 mails to read, so I can find out what's going on :) Ok, I think
that's all for now. It's wonderful to be here again :)
Cheers,
Pawel
16 years, 11 months
Re: A Mac User's Opinion of Fedora Core 6
by chasd
Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> In my opinon MacOSX is much more simpler to use. Software Installation
> (including the os itself) is way simpler: simply unzip the app and
> drop
> it anywhere.
OS X does not have a way to manage installed software, a huge
weakness compared to Fedora. It may be simpler to install software on
OS X, but it is not better.
> Patching is better.
OS X patches, or updates as they are called, are bundled into
batches. That doesn't make them "better" , just less granular. That
also makes updating less flexible. You are forced to patch the web
browser at the same time you patch rsync, for example.
Plus, updates for other software is separate from the updates from
Apple, which is confusing and disjointed.
Updates installed via "Software Update" are listed as installed in
the GUI, but updates downloaded separately and applied are not listed
as installed. There is a directory where those "rogue" updates can be
viewed as applied, but it is not commonly known.
> But I think it`s unfair to compare them.
I think Fedora will have the best chance to improve if comparisons to
all platforms are considered.
Charles Dostale
System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications
http://www.silveroaks.com/
824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265
16 years, 11 months
Different python versions in a Fedora system
by Kushal Das
Hi,
Is there any way to keep different Python versions in a Fedora system ?
There will some installation (around 292) state wise in kiosks. But the only
reason the team is refusing Fedora is its lack of support of keeping &
running different versions of Python . So, is there any work around ?
Kushal
--
Fedora Ambassador, India
http://kushaldas.in
16 years, 11 months
Re: Distrowatch dot com judgment of Fedora's relation with the "community"
by Rahul Sundaram
Ladislav Bodnar wrote:
> On Thursday 10 May 2007, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>> I would shorten this to a few salient points. We are a community
>> distribution. Everything we use to build the distribution is freely
>> available to anyone. Any package in our distribution is open to
>> ownership by anyone - Red Hat or not. The number of people working on
>> Fedora who do not work at Red Hat outnumber Red Hat employees three to
>> one. We have a governing board that is made up of both Red Hat and
>> non-Red Hat folks, all of whom are passionate about free software and
>> live the values they preach and use to govern the project.
>>
>> Anyone can participate. All they have to do is show up and start doing
>> something. That's a community distribution.
>
> OK, I have removed the sentence. I think it was left there from an earlier
> description of Red Hat Linux or early Fedora versions, but clearly, it's no
> longer correct.
>
> Thank you all for your input :-)
Thanks Ladislav. Appreciate being responsive to feedback. We hope our
new planned features like integration of Big Board and Mugshot will
demonstrate our focus on desktop usability too in Fedora 8.
Rahul
16 years, 11 months
A Mac User's Opinion of Fedora Core 6
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Not really a review but you don't find OS X users trying out Fedora all
the time. Thought the perspectives are interesting.
"So, if you have the option of using Fedora at work I would definitely
suggest you give it a try. But don’t just try it because you hate
Windows (though that is a really good excuse); try it because you want
to learn something different. Try it because you want to experience a
different way of doing things."
http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/1949/
Rahul
16 years, 11 months
