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=== Kororaa GNU/Linux is back (ITWire) === | |||
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013733.html</ref> a posting about Kororaa GNU/Linux from Australia, but also what one user appreciates about Fedora: | |||
"Always having been a bit of a distro-hopper, I went back to Debian, then to Ubuntu, but I was never happy. I have always been drawn to Fedora because of many reasons, but primarily their freedom drivers (promoting free culture and free software over proprietary solutions), but also because they stick to upstream and improve it there for the benefit of everyone, rather than doing their own thing. | |||
Fedora is responsible for many of the great desktop enhancements we take for granted today, like AIGLX (Accelerated Indirect GLX), D-Bus, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, Ogg Theora, and PolicyKit." | |||
The full article is available<ref>http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/45585-kororaa-gnulinux-is-back</ref>. | |||
=== Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) === | === Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) === | ||
Revision as of 15:39, 9 March 2011
Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Kororaa GNU/Linux is back (ITWire)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting about Kororaa GNU/Linux from Australia, but also what one user appreciates about Fedora:
"Always having been a bit of a distro-hopper, I went back to Debian, then to Ubuntu, but I was never happy. I have always been drawn to Fedora because of many reasons, but primarily their freedom drivers (promoting free culture and free software over proprietary solutions), but also because they stick to upstream and improve it there for the benefit of everyone, rather than doing their own thing.
Fedora is responsible for many of the great desktop enhancements we take for granted today, like AIGLX (Accelerated Indirect GLX), D-Bus, DeviceKit, HAL, NetworkManager, Ogg Theora, and PolicyKit."
The full article is available[2].
Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[3] an article from the blog IT Management surveying the linux landscape and focusing on Red Hat-based distributions, including Fedora:
"In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months.
The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot"
The full article is available[4].
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013733.html
- ↑ http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/45585-kororaa-gnulinux-is-back
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013730.html
- ↑ http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3927416/Linux-Leaders-Part-II-Fedora-and-Red-Hat-Derivative-Distros.htm
Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article in The H Online about the Fedora 15 alpha release:
"an overview of which can be found in the release notes and feature list. The distribution will now use LibreOffice as its office suite – Fedora was one of the first distributions to make the switch to the OpenOffice.org alternative back in October last year. The alpha includes a Linux 2.6.38 release candidate as its kernel and uses a pre-release version of GCC 4.6. Responsibility for booting is taken up by Systemd, an alternative to SysVinit and Upstart. Systemd was in the running for use in both Fedora 14 and openSUSE 11.4, but was eventually dropped from both.
The most striking change in Lovelock and one which is sure to fuel plenty of discussion is the switch to GNOME 3, which breaks with many of the concepts that GNOME users, and computer users in general, have become used to over many years"
The full post is available[2].
Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com)
Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] another article highlighting the Fedora 15 alpha release from the InternetNews.com blog:
"Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone available[2]. This is a BIG release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder.
GNOME 3, including GNOME Shell mark the evolution of the Linux desktop and Fedora is likely to be the first big Linux distro to full integrate it. When it comes to systemd, that's been a long time coming, but in Fedora 15, it's finally fully baked making it easier and faster to manage and startup background daemons.
BoxGrinder is another story and is a very exciting technology. Red Hat first starting talking about BoxGrinder a year ago[3] as a new way to build virtual software appliances (think SUSE Studio from rival Novell)."
The full article is available[4]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013728.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
- ↑ http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3864466/Red-Hat-Talks-Up-Open-Source-Cloud-Plans.htm
- ↑ http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/03/fedora-15-linux-hits-first-alp.html
Debian takes security very seriously… but how?
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting about Bugzilla security patches and linux distro comparisons vis-a-vis security:
"And people often come on IRC asking us for help, because their Bugzilla package provided with their Linux distro is broken or behaves in a weird way (typically a broken configuration or customization). And guess what? Most of the time, they use the Debian package. Yes, very seriously! For comparison, Fedora updated their Bugzilla packages the day after we released 3.6.4, and Mandriva the week after! It looks like they take security a bit more seriously."
The full post is available[2].