[in the news] Fedora 13 Boasts Many Leading-Edge Enhancements
by Kara Schiltz
eWeek
6.16.10
Fedora 13 Boasts Many Leading-Edge Enhancements
By Jason Brooks
Since its first version, in 2003, Red Hat's Fedora Linux has been the
best place to track what's on the leading edge of Linux and open-source
<http://www.eweek.com/#> software. Of course, the trouble with running
on the leading edge is that it's easy to get cut, and the Fedora
distribution's fast development pace has required a certain amount of
bug-squashing tolerance from its users.
Fedora 13, which began shipping in late May, boasts many of the
leading-edge enhancements—and few of the rough spots—that I've come to
expect from the popular Linux-based operating system. In particular, I
appreciated the work the Fedora team has done in the area of security
and permissions, with progress toward more granular rights management
<http://www.eweek.com/#> through Fedora's PolicyKit framework, and an
implementation of the SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) framework that
remained, for the most part, tucked away unobtrusively in the background.
Full post:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Fedora-13-Boasts-Many-Le...
13 years, 9 months
Microblogging research
by Luke Slater
Hello everyone,
I made a blog post last week[1] to gauge the Fedora community's
feelings about our Microblogging to see how strongly people felt about
certain things (as well as to initially inform them that we've gained
the @fedora Twitter account) and to see if anyone had any ideas. I've
also made a summary of the points made so far[2], however Quaid made a
very worthwhile comment since then which is worth reading. Those of
you who were in the Marketing meeting yesterday already know about
this but I forgot to post it to the list, which I'm doing now :-)
In terms of further discussion about issues such as language, where
did we decide we were going to pursue those? In the meetings?
[1] - http://bit.ly/a9uFus
[2] - http://reality.fedorapeople.org/microblogging.html
Thanks a lot,
--
Luke Slater
:O)
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[In the news] Backing up with Deja Dup
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/15/backing-up-with-deja-dup/
"In a recent article I introduced to the Ghacks readers the latest
release from Fedora (see “Fedoras Lucky 13“). In this article I
mentioned a number of features that helped to make Fedora one of the
more user friendly Linux distributions available today. One of the
reasons this is so is the inclusion of some tools that make using Fedora
13 incredibly easy. One such tool is the backup system Deja Dup. Daja
Dup makes backups incredible simple. With an interface containing no
more than a menu bar and two buttons, backing up couldn’t be easier.
But that simplicity doesn’t mean Deja Dup is complete bereft of
features. Not at all. In fact, you’d be surprised at how many different
ways you can backup with Deja Dup. In this article you are going to see
how easy it is to back up your Fedora 13 files and folders with this
handy tool."
Rahul
13 years, 9 months
[In the news] Counting the Cost of Free: What Value, Linux?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://eftu.co.cc/counting-the-cost-of-free-what-value-linux/
"Bentley: Why the Fedora community distribution and not another?
McPherson: Fedora is the basis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which
represents a large percentage of the Linux market. This provided us with
a very relevant model to assess. Also, David A. Wheeler had used Red Hat
for his study in 2002. OpenSuse and Debian/Ubuntu would, of course, also
be great targets for this study. We may do that at a later date. We also
would like to use an embedded distribution."
Rahul
13 years, 9 months
[In the news] Fedora’s lucky 13
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/11/fedoras-lucky-13/
"I could continue on forever and a day about how Fedora 13 brings a
world of improvement to the Fedora/Linux experience. But the best thing
I can say is that Ubuntu better watch out or Fedora might well usurp it
as the king of Linux for new users. And since Fedora is already one of
the most popular distributions with experienced users…you get the picture.
If you have never tried Fedora do so now. If you jumped ship on Fedora
some where around Fedora 9, I’d say it’s about time you jumped back on
the ship and enjoyed an incredible experience."
Rahul
13 years, 9 months
MMM. Fedora Marketing Meeting Minutes - 2010/06/15
by Robyn Bergeron
Progress on tickets - and some good discussion on microblogging.
Thanks to all for coming.
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-15/fedora_marke...
Full Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-15/fedora_marke...
-robyn
===================================
#fedora-meeting-1: Fedora Marketing
===================================
Meeting started by rbergeron at 20:00:17 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-15/fedora_marke...
.
Meeting summary
---------------
* roll call! (rbergeron, 20:02:22)
* Agenda - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda
(rbergeron, 20:04:04)
* Trac Tickets (rbergeron, 20:07:04)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/33 - Update
pages on Free Media distribution (rbergeron, 20:07:15)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/35 - F13 release events
Marketing (rbergeron, 20:09:35)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/107 - Brand Book /
Story book (rbergeron, 20:12:44)
* ACTION: ianweller to update ticket 107 with some info on FAD
planning - what needs to happen before we can do a brand book FAD?
(rbergeron, 20:14:57)
* ACTION: ianweller to take #107 as well, thank you sir (rbergeron,
20:15:07)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/114 - Mktg Postmortem
(rbergeron, 20:15:31)
* ACTION: rbergeron to create new ticket, assign to
nourishedcloud/reality - locations of swapping out "postmortem" for
"retrospective" (rbergeron, 20:21:14)
* ACTION: nourishedcloud to do the swapping (rbergeron, 20:21:32)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/37 - Release Events
Poster (rbergeron, 20:22:26)
* Discussed last week that we'd probably merge this with
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/35 (release events
marketing) at some point - I'm hanging on to it until we get more
detail / roadmap on #35. (rbergeron, 20:23:08)
* https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/63 - Timeless / Generic
Slogan (rbergeron, 20:23:35)
* ACTION: stickster Update ticket #63 biweekly (stickster, 20:24:49)
* Microblogging - How we should conduct ourselves (reactions to [[1]])
(rbergeron, 20:25:29)
* LINK: http://dinosaur-os.com/post/691754809/fedora-microblogging
(rbergeron, 20:25:49)
* LINK: http://reality.fedorapeople.org/microblogging.html
(NourishedCloud, 20:26:37)
* LINK: http://reality.fedorapeople.org/microblogging.html (ke4zvu3,
20:32:23)
* ACTION: nourishedcloud to post link to discussion on mailing list so
we can all be in on the loop (rbergeron, 20:45:23)
* AGREED: (ke4zvu3, 20:45:52)
* LINK:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-June/013003.html
(ke4zvu3, 20:49:56)
* LINK:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-06-08/fedora_marke...
(rbergeron, 20:50:24)
* AGREED: (ke4zvu3, 20:51:33)
* ACTION: Nourishedcloud to check out existence of free tools for
microblogging. (rbergeron, 20:53:56)
* ACTION: stickster update
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Twitter_SOP#Ways_to_Use_Twitter with
more details (stickster, 20:55:04)
* address more of the language-translation issues as we get further
into our process. (rbergeron, 20:56:21)
* along with anything else that comes up. :) (rbergeron, 20:56:28)
* Fedora in the UK - Aims for F14 (rbergeron, 20:57:38)
* Open Floor (rbergeron, 21:02:29)
Meeting ended at 21:06:14 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* ianweller to update ticket 107 with some info on FAD planning - what
needs to happen before we can do a brand book FAD?
* ianweller to take #107 as well, thank you sir
* rbergeron to create new ticket, assign to nourishedcloud/reality -
locations of swapping out "postmortem" for "retrospective"
* nourishedcloud to do the swapping
* stickster Update ticket #63 biweekly
* nourishedcloud to post link to discussion on mailing list so we can
all be in on the loop
* Nourishedcloud to check out existence of free tools for microblogging.
* stickster update
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Twitter_SOP#Ways_to_Use_Twitter with
more details
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* ianweller
* ianweller to update ticket 107 with some info on FAD planning - what
needs to happen before we can do a brand book FAD?
* ianweller to take #107 as well, thank you sir
* nourishedcloud
* rbergeron to create new ticket, assign to nourishedcloud/reality -
locations of swapping out "postmortem" for "retrospective"
* nourishedcloud to do the swapping
* nourishedcloud to post link to discussion on mailing list so we can
all be in on the loop
* rbergeron
* rbergeron to create new ticket, assign to nourishedcloud/reality -
locations of swapping out "postmortem" for "retrospective"
* stickster
* stickster Update ticket #63 biweekly
* stickster update
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Twitter_SOP#Ways_to_Use_Twitter with
more details
* **UNASSIGNED**
* Nourishedcloud to check out existence of free tools for
microblogging.
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* rbergeron (147)
* stickster (45)
* NourishedCloud (37)
* ke4zvu3 (22)
* ke4qqq (15)
* bruce89 (10)
* nb (7)
* zodbot (6)
* ianweller (4)
* gwerra (2)
* wonderer (1)
* nourishedcloud (0)
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