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Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:jasonbrooks | Jason Brooks]]


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=== Fedora 16 KDE and GNOME 3 Alpha screenshots (LinuxBSDoc.com) ===
=== The 5 most popular Linux distributions ===


[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014022.html</ref> a posting including Fedora 16 Alpha KDE and GNOME 3 screenshots:
"...Fedora clearly has its fans. And, if you work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, it's a really wise idea to keep a copy of Fedora on hand so you can see RHEL's future."


"...Anaconda, the Fedora installer, will be using the GPT partition table by default. There were some doubts about that, but the images in this article confirms it. GPT partition table will be the default, when Fedora 16 is finally released, which will be in early November (2011).
The full article is available <ref>http://www.zdnet.com/the-5-most-popular-linux-distributions-7000003183/</ref>.
 
GPT, the GUID Partition Table, is an alternate disk partition table scheme that solves two problems associated with the MBR (Master boot Record) partition table: It allows the configuration of more than four primary partitions, the maximum supported by MBR, and also supports disk partitions of more than 2 TB.
 
From the test installations I carried out, I observed that GPT is the default if Fedora is installed in standalone mode. If, however, there is an existing distribution or another operating system on the drive, and you attempt to dual-boot, it defaults to the MBR partition table."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/08/24/fedora-16-kde-and-gnome-3-alpha-screenshots/</ref>.
 
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=== A Look Through Fedora 16 Alpha (Phoronix.com) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014023.html</ref> another article on Fedora 16 Alpha:
 
"The GNOME Shell for version 3.2 is not radically different, but still nicer than early versions of Ubuntu's Unity desktop (granted, Unity in Ubuntu 11.10 is also becoming more friendly and polished). Fortunately, Fedora is always shipping with the latest open-source graphics drivers and other core components, so the GNOME Shell should work relatively well on Radeon / Nouveau / Intel"
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_16_alpha&num=1</ref>.
 
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=== Alpha version of Fedora 16 "Verne" released ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014024.html</ref>
 
"The alpha uses Linux kernel 3.0, but versions released from late
September or early October are expected to move to version 3.1. It
includes the alpha version of KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7.0, and GNOME
3.1.5 will provide a foretaste of GNOME 3.2. The development team has
also replaced further init scripts with systemd units. Systemd replaced
upstart in Fedora 15. The planned switch to using Btrfs as the default
file system has been deferred to a future version."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Alpha-version-of-Fedora-16-Verne-released-1328758.html</ref>.
 
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=== Free as in sake: The story of Koji ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014025.html</ref> a nice review article on Koji:
 
"During the Core-Extras merger, being able to use Koji was a huge help
to Fedora. While some integration work was required, all other options
would have demanded much more effort. Red Hat had already been building
pre-merger versions of Core in an early version of Koji, so the
transition was simply less drastic. Furthermore, Koji's robust XML-RPC
interface allowed other parts of Fedora infrastructure to tie in with
relative ease. Over the past four years, Koji has shown its flexibility
as Fedora's needs have changed"
 
The full post is available<ref>http://opensource.com/life/11/7/free-sake-story-koji</ref>.
 
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=== Red Hat's Aeolus to 'out-Linux' Rackspace's cloud: OpenStack with a Fedora twist ===
 
[[User:rbergero|Robyn Bergeron]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014026.html</ref> an article on Red Hat's current efforts with cloud services:
 
"Red Hat is leading a Fedora-like effort to succeed where OpenStack has struggled in building an open-source cloud founded on broad community input.
 
Red Hat's engineers are building Aeolus, a software suite to spin up, manage and deploy applications from physical and virtual servers to any public or private cloud.
 
Red Hat claims Aeolus will let you pluck apps from various virtual machines and throw them into different clouds: so your choice of cloud is not pre-determined by the hypervisor you use.
 
While it works with vSphere, Aeolus also runs on KVM, the open-source hypervisor embraced by Red Hat and at the heart of the anti-VMware Open Virtualization Alliance it launched in May with server heavyweights and aspiring cloud providers Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
 
Aeolus will allow you to configure, program and provision applications on your virtual servers and then let them overflow to Amazon's EC2, Rackspace, and "other" yet-to-be-determined clouds."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/30/red_hat_aeolus_open_source_cloud/</ref>.
 
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=== Fedora 16 to have Grub2, GNOME 3.2 and KDE 4.7 (The H Online) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014021.html</ref> an article on some upcoming features in Fedora 16 from The H Online:
 
"The feature list contains 40 items, including GNOME 3.2 and KDE Plasma
Workspaces 4.7. The developers are planning to switch to using Grub2 for
the boot loader. Having switched to systemd, as an alternative to
sysvinit and upstart, in Fedora 15, the project plans to replace further
sysv init scripts with systemd units in version 16. Furthermore, Fedora
is to offer everything that's required for Xen virtualisation, as
version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, which is now expected to be released on
Friday, will include all the necessary components."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-16-to-have-Grub2-GNOME-3-2-and-KDE-4-7-1283238.html</ref>.
 
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=== Google Web Fonts prove free fonts are flourishing (Linux Pro Magazine) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014020.html</ref>:
 
"Historically, fonts have been a weak point in free software. There were
probably two reasons: first, programmers were mostly indifferent to
fonts, and, second, font designers were concerned about how their work
might be used. However, in the last five years, the problem has been
largely corrected, as a look at the Google Web Fonts page shows."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Google-Web-Fonts-prove-free-fonts-are-flourishing</ref>.
 
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=== National meet on Free Open Source Software (ExpressBuzz.com) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014019.html</ref>:
 
"KOCHI: The Federal Institute of Science and Technology will organise a
two-day national conference on Free Open Source Software. The conference
organised by the Computer Science Department of FISAT and the FISAT Free
Software Cell will be held on FISAT campus on August 26 and 27.
 
In the two-day meet, Praseed Pai, author of ‘Slang For .net’, will speak
on Cross Platform Development. Shakti Kannan, Ambassador of Fedora,
Pune, and Ranjith Siji, Chief Technology Officer of Walking Ant
Technologies will speak on other sessions."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/national-meet-on-free-open-source-software/305564.html</ref>.
 
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=== Infographic sums up Linux then and now (Geek.com) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014018.html</ref>:
 
"One of the most telling stats, based on information gathered from
LinuxCon registrations this year, is how the different distributions
have won or lost favor with users. Although Fedora used to hold nearly
half the market share (45%), it has now dropped firmly into second place
(28%) behind the growing popularity of Ubuntu (34%). One positive aspect
of this change is more distributions are getting users’ attention and
use, and Linux Mint has recently joined the more well-known and older
distros on the list."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/new-linux-foundation-infographic-sums-up-linux-then-and-now-20110817/</ref>.
 
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=== Feature preview of Fedora 16 installer ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014017.html</ref>:
 
"GPT, the GUID Partition Table, is an alternate disk partition table
scheme that solves two problems associated with the MBR (Master boot
Record) partition table. It allows the configuration of more than four
primary partitions, the maximum supported by MBR, and also supports disk
partitions of more than 2 TB. So GPT will be the default partition table
scheme on Fedora 16"
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/08/08/feature-preview-of-fedora-16-installer/</ref>.
 
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=== Fedora Postpones Switch To Btrfs; Fedora 17 Is Now The Target Release For The Switch ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014016.html</ref>:
 
"The Fedora developers have listened and have decided that Fedora 16
will not use Btrfs by default. The announcement was made by Josef Bacik,
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Bacik, however, mentioned that
Btrfs is still being considered as the default filesystem for future
release of Fedora. The target release to have Btrfs by default has been
shifted to Fedora 17 now."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://digitizor.com/2011/08/10/fedora-16-no-btrfs/</ref>.
 
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=== Fedora 16 to skip btrfs by default (Network World) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014015.html</ref>:
 
"I'm actually encouraged by the fact that btrfs is being delayed for
default for another release. It shows that the Fedora release process
and objectives are working well. Bacik has also displayed a great deal
of patience (as far as I've seen, anyway) with bug reports and
complaints while working to get it up to speed."
 
The full post is available<ref>https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/77452</ref>.
 
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=== Fedora not to switch to Btrfs in version 16 ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014014.html</ref>:
 
"Recently, it became apparent that Btrfs has not met the stipulated
criteria. The main reason for this continues to be the still ongoing
development of a decent program for testing and repairing Btrfs file
systems. Bacik had previously hoped that such a program would be
released in May; now, the developer has mentioned a time frame of "a few
weeks", but has also said that the developers' target is the Linux
Plumbers Conference, which will start on 7 September. The Fedora project
will probably make a second attempt to switch in Fedora 17."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-not-to-switch-to-Btrfs-in-version-16-1319827.html</ref>.
 
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=== Oracle, SUSE, Red Hat drive 70% of LibreOffice development (ZDNet.com) ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014013.html</ref>:
 
"Upon the release of LibreOffice 3.4.2, the Document Foundation
announced that Oracle and SUSE each contributes roughly 25 percent of
the latest commits, while Red Hat contributed another 20 percent.
Following Oracle’s donation of Openoffice to the Apache Foundation
earlier this year, The Document Foundation wants to reassure the
technology public that corporate support for LibreOffice is strong and
that this Office suite is “enterprise ready.”
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-suse-red-hat-drive-70-of-libreoffice-development/9324</ref>.
 
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=== Can GNOME 3 Become the Next Big Open Source Contender? (TheVarGuy.com)===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014012.html</ref>:
 
"There’s a lot to like about GNOME Shell in its current form. It’s
functional, graceful and arguably more intuitive than Canonical’s Unity,
which suffers, for instance, from the lack of any means for adding
virtual desktops other than editing gconf values by hand."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/08/02/can-gnome-3-become-the-next-big-open-source-ui-contender/</ref>.


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=== Praise for Fedora 15 and KDE 4.6.x - A great experience! ===
=== Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014011.html</ref>:


"Some old time Fedora users may be aware of Fedora's poor track record
Arnav Kalra posted <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-August/014486.html</ref>:
when it comes to KDE although things have been changing ever since the
release of KDE 4.x. I regularly try Fedora KDE and so far haven't been
fully convinced with the experience until now.


As a fan of both Fedora and KDE it gives me pleasure to say Fedora 15
"Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) and future releases — along with RHEL 7 and future CentOS releases — will be the best way to enjoy a vanilla Gnome 3 experience."
with KDE 4.6.x is a great experience!"


The full post is available<ref>http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/07/praise-for-fedora-15-and-kde-46x-great.html</ref>.
The full article is available <ref>http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/08/why-fedora-18-will-be-the-practical-choice-for-vanilla-enthusiasts/</ref>.


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=== Living with Fedora – A Debian/Ubuntu User’s Take on Fedora 15 ===
=== Fedora 18 Linux Set To Package Spherical Cow Load of Features ===


[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014010.html</ref>:
"The clock is starting to tick down on the Fedora Linux release with the feature freeze now in place. As such, now is as good a time as any to take a look at some of the new features that are likely to land when Fedora 18 goes live at the end of the year."


"If I was to sum up my opinion on Fedora 15 in one sentence, it’d have
The full article is available <ref>http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/fedora-18-linux-set-to-package-spherical-cow-load-of-features.html</ref>.
to be “Rough, but with great potential“. Gnome 3 is still a baby, and
Fedora took a bold step by pushing it to the forefront, and I applaud
them for that. As cozy as it may be, there’s still a whole lot of polish
left to be done. The front-end is still rough, and the back-end doesn’t
seem to have yet caught up with all the changes. If Fedora can manage to
take the successes in this release (which are many) and smooth out some
of those rough spots (which are also many), then Fedora 16 is likely to
pull a lot of users away from Ubuntu permanently. From the looks of it,
I’ll be one of them."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://maketecheasier.com/living-with-fedora-15/2011/07/21</ref>.


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=== Linux at 20, some personal memories ===
=== Fedora 18 schedule slips by a week ===
 
[[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014009.html</ref>:


"By this time, summer of 1991, we had both started posting to Usenet. In
"At a go/no-go meeting of the Fedora QA Team, the developers decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha by a week. The team unanimously voted to not go forward with the release because of the relatively large number of blocker bugs that are still unresolved."
August, Linus mentioned his kernel project on comp.os.minix for the
first time. Later on, he decided to make the code available, and got one
of the admins of ftp.funet.fi to put it there. For this, the project
needed a name. Linus wanted to call it Freax, but Ari Lemmke, the
ftp.funet.fi admin, decided to call it Linux instead. You can find the
Freax name in the Makefile of the earliest Linux releases."


The full post is available<ref>http://liw.fi/linux20/</ref>.
The full article is available <ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-18-schedule-slips-by-a-week-1673640.html</ref>.


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Latest revision as of 21:21, 29 August 2012

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: Jason Brooks

The 5 most popular Linux distributions

"...Fedora clearly has its fans. And, if you work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, it's a really wise idea to keep a copy of Fedora on hand so you can see RHEL's future."

The full article is available [1].

Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts

Arnav Kalra posted [1]:

"Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) and future releases — along with RHEL 7 and future CentOS releases — will be the best way to enjoy a vanilla Gnome 3 experience."

The full article is available [2].

Fedora 18 Linux Set To Package Spherical Cow Load of Features

"The clock is starting to tick down on the Fedora Linux release with the feature freeze now in place. As such, now is as good a time as any to take a look at some of the new features that are likely to land when Fedora 18 goes live at the end of the year."

The full article is available [1].

Fedora 18 schedule slips by a week

"At a go/no-go meeting of the Fedora QA Team, the developers decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha by a week. The team unanimously voted to not go forward with the release because of the relatively large number of blocker bugs that are still unresolved."

The full article is available [1].