From Fedora Project Wiki

< FWN‎ | Beats

No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 10: Line 10:
<references/>
<references/>


=== Red Hat Proves That Open Source Is Good for Business (PC World) ===
=== Update on Fedora 15 Development - GNOME 3 Shell Updates (montanalinux.org) ===


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013758.html</ref> a posting on btrfs and its relation to ext4 in RHEL and Fedora:
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013767.html</ref> a posting on Gnome 3 shell experience in Fedora 15:


"Critics of free and open source software are fond of making the argument that software must be locked up, patented and jealously guarded if it is to serve as the basis for a successful business. Well, Red Hat just refuted such claims in a big way this week with its fourth quarter earnings report, which blew away analysts' expectations and placed the company well on track for billion-dollar revenues in the upcoming year."
"I've been using the GNOME 3 Shell more and I really like the changes they've made since the Fedora 15 Alpha release. These changes include larger icons in the Applications list and auto-managed virtual desktops. Some people call this a "dumbing down" of the interface but I prefer to call it streamlining. If you have a lot of previous GNOME 2.x experience you might perceive it to be counter-intuitive... but give it a little while. The streamlining really makes the new environment easy to learn and use. It is elegant, and as one blogger put it... "it looks expensive"."


Based in North Carolina, Red Hat is the company behind both the Fedora and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux distributions. Fedora is the free, community version of the software, while RHEL is sold as acommercial product with support and services."
The full article is available<ref>http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora15-devel-update-20110326.html</ref>.


The full article is available<ref>http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/223346/red_hat_proves_that_open_source_is_good_for_business.html</ref>.
<references/>
 
=== Fedora introduces new top-level directory for runtime data (Network World) ===
 
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013768.html</ref> another upcoming feature in Fedora 15:
 
""Fedora 15 will come with a lot of new features and interesting changes — including a whole new top-level directory in the form of /run for runtime data.
 
This may sound trivial to many, but top-level directories tend to be a touchy topic in some circles. Consider that there's an entire standard that was hashed out years ago, it's surprising to see a top-level directory casually introduced.
 
But Poettering says that he already has buy-in from the other major distributions."
 
The full article is available<ref>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/72645</ref>.
 
<references/>
 
=== Linux distributions to include /run/ directory (The H Online) ===
 
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013769.html</ref> another posting about the new /run directory in Fedora 15:
 
"Poettering says that the introduction of the new directory wasn't just his own idea but that it has been discussed among the Debian, Fedora, Suse and Upstart developers; Colin Watson said that he is happy to support the use of the new directory in Ubuntu. Poettering indicated that many developers working in this area may have wanted something like /run for quite a while, but that they may have feared the potential political consequences and discussions"
 
The full article is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-distributions-to-include-run-directory-1219006.html</ref>.


<references/>
<references/>

Revision as of 13:36, 4 April 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

Update on Fedora 15 Development - GNOME 3 Shell Updates (montanalinux.org)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a posting on Gnome 3 shell experience in Fedora 15:

"I've been using the GNOME 3 Shell more and I really like the changes they've made since the Fedora 15 Alpha release. These changes include larger icons in the Applications list and auto-managed virtual desktops. Some people call this a "dumbing down" of the interface but I prefer to call it streamlining. If you have a lot of previous GNOME 2.x experience you might perceive it to be counter-intuitive... but give it a little while. The streamlining really makes the new environment easy to learn and use. It is elegant, and as one blogger put it... "it looks expensive"."

The full article is available[2].

Fedora introduces new top-level directory for runtime data (Network World)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another upcoming feature in Fedora 15:

""Fedora 15 will come with a lot of new features and interesting changes — including a whole new top-level directory in the form of /run for runtime data.

This may sound trivial to many, but top-level directories tend to be a touchy topic in some circles. Consider that there's an entire standard that was hashed out years ago, it's surprising to see a top-level directory casually introduced.

But Poettering says that he already has buy-in from the other major distributions."

The full article is available[2].

Linux distributions to include /run/ directory (The H Online)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] another posting about the new /run directory in Fedora 15:

"Poettering says that the introduction of the new directory wasn't just his own idea but that it has been discussed among the Debian, Fedora, Suse and Upstart developers; Colin Watson said that he is happy to support the use of the new directory in Ubuntu. Poettering indicated that many developers working in this area may have wanted something like /run for quite a while, but that they may have feared the potential political consequences and discussions"

The full article is available[2].