Distrowatch: From Fedora 9 to OpenSUSE 11
by Pascal Calarco
The Distrowatch editor has been using Fedora 9 since release and is now
moving over to try out SUSE 11.0. He makes a few comments about Fedora 9:
"Before taking a first look at Novell's community distribution, let me
start with a few remarks on Fedora's last two releases. It seems to be a
trend among Linux distributions that an excellent release is often
followed by a mediocre one. It's as if the distribution developers
became complacent after one or two successful versions, thinking that
nothing could possible go wrong six months down the line. As such, they
get more adventurous, make wrong decisions, and add experimental
features, the combination of which is often disastrous. With Fedora 9, I
feel that the developers have negated all the great work they had done
with previous 2 - 3 releases and went overboard with bleeding-edge
software and features. No wonder Fedora 9 received barely a lukewarm
reception by most reviewers, while many users were much less kind in
their choice of words when describing their own experiences.
My sentiments are no different from those expressed in many recent
reviews. Fedora 8 was possibly the project's best release to-date -
certainly not without its problems, but generally trouble-free,
especially after the first waves of post-release bug fixes and software
updates were applied to the distribution. On the other hand, Fedora 9
barely qualifies as a stable release. The decision to provide KDE 4 as
the only KDE desktop was a painfully wrong one, particularly at the time
when the vocal Fedora KDE team has been campaigning hard to convince the
Linux community that Fedora was not a GNOME distro any more. And
shipping a version of X.Org that did not work with any of the
proprietary NVIDIA drivers also must have cost the distribution a few
users."
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080623#feature
- pascal
15 years, 9 months
Need help
by Danishka Navin
Hi All,
I would like to know how we can serve Education System of a county using our
Fedora products.
ex: Fedora Localized Spins,etc
Welcome your ideas, stories and case studies.
--
Danishka Navin
http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com (use Sinhala Unicode fonts)
15 years, 9 months
How-to in Spanish
by Diego Escobar
Hi all:
I have done a little how-to about basic configuration of Fedora 9. It was
created for academic purposes (thinking in my local Linux Users Group named
"UNPLUG") but maybe could be useful for more Spanish speakers people. (It is
in spanish).
This guide is unofficial of course, and is a collection of all my published
posts (http://suservidorwp.blogspot.com) designed for newbies. Is part of
spread Fedora on Latinoamerica, where people prefers Ubuntu because there
are more blogs, wikis, and documentation in Spanish.
If you consider useful this guide, you can download it in:
http://suservidorwp.googlepages.com/fedora9.pdf
Greetings.
--
Diego Escobar
Fedora Ambassador for Colombia
Fedora Release 9 (Sulphur): Linux Kernel 2.6.25 + Gnome 2.22
15 years, 9 months
Java is finally Free and Open
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/196
http://digg.com/software/Java_finally_open_and_free
"This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The
latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the
rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides
all the required Java APIs and behaves like any other Java SE 6
implementation - in keeping with the portability goal of the Java
platform. As of writing, Fedora 9 is the only operating system to
include a free and open Java SE 6 implementation that has passed the
Java TCK. All of the code that makes this possible has been made
available to the IcedTea project so everyone can benefit from the work."
Rahul
15 years, 9 months
Re: Now, that I got people talking...
by Ricardo Garcia
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 8:57 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent turkovic gmail com> wrote:
> > There are two projects; saya-videoeditor [3], myvideoeditor [4]
>
> saya currently relies on the OpenVIP media framework..which uses ffmpeg.
> the reliance on ffmpeg makes its nearly impossible to include in
> Fedora. I can not stress this enough, applications which have compile
> time dependencies on ffmpeg will be difficult to place in Fedora.
> Unless someone figures out how to patch out the encumbered
> technologies in ffmpeg, we can't ship ffmpeg. And even if we did find
> a way to patch out everything we can't distribute, it may not be worth
> doing because we would be in effect shipping a significantly crippled
> ffmpeg library since ffmpeg does not understand the concept of
> pluggable runtime codec support.
>
> Its a real shame, if we could ship a limited version of ffmpeg which
> support unencumbered codec technologies we would have the ability to
> ship versions of several multimedia frameworks and applications. But
> the way ffmpeg is structured as a project and a codebase, makes its
> difficult to safely work with.
>
> -jef
Hello. I'm Rick Garcia, from the Saya video editor. I have designed
Saya so it can use *ANY* decoding library. It's not hardwired to
FFMPEG and not even OpenVIP. Since OpenVIP was made GPLv3 just a few
days ago, I can do whatever I want with it, like stripping FFMPEG
support. The OpenVIP library is going to be embedded - not just linked
- in the project. Actually, I'm going to separate OpenVIP from the
codec processing so I can implement file decoding via plugins.
But my dream codec library would be one with a pluggable architecture,
so people could add their popular patent-encumbered codecs to it. But
it needs to be cross-platform (i.e. Windows / Linux). If you know one,
please don't hesitate in telling me.
Sincerely,
Rick Garcia
Saya-VE Project Leader
P.S. Now, where do I subscribe to this list?
15 years, 9 months
Now, that I got people talking...
by Markus McLaughlin
The real reason why I came up with the "fedoraLife" concept is to have a
"Fedora Studio" spin established that either has the "fedoraLife" suite that
enhances already established software OR puts the already established
software "front and center." So people who work in multimedia can access
their tools quickly and easily. So,
people, let's see if we ALL can make this happen...
*Mark McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Hudson, MA, USA*
15 years, 9 months
Fwd: Fedora TV Submission Form - PHP
by Jonathan Roberts
Hey all,
Can I get some feedback on this? The third is an easy answer - but the
first two are a little trickier. Why can't people just send an e-mail,
and I have no idea about legal!
Best,
Jon
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com>
Date: 2008/6/17
Subject: Re: Fedora TV Submission Form - PHP
To: fedora-infrastructure-list(a)redhat.com
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>
> We've created a channel in Miro, Fedora TV, for use by the marketing
> team with things like screencast tutorials/video interviews etc and we
> want to make it easy for community people to submit their content.
>
> To do this, we planned to create a simple web form that collects the
> users' data (Name, e-mail, video URL etc) and then sends that off to
> an e-mail address. This e-mail address could either belong to a single
> editor or a mailing list (the latter is preferred), so that we can
> check it's relevant before adding it to the main channel feed for all
> the world to see.
>
> We have a simple script in PHP to collect this form information and
> e-mail it, and providing people don't think there are better
> approaches to this, we would like to get it hosted so that we can use
> it on Fedora Websites.
>
So I've got a couple of questions.... First of which being why can't
people just email this stuff?
Second being, and this is probably a question for legal, in order to
submit that stuff to us via a web form, wouldn't we need to require cla
done?
Third being, how large of files are we talking about emailing around (be
very specific)? Email and video often seem ill suited to eachother.
-Mike
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