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| Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:jasonbrooks | Jason Brooks]] |
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| === Fedora 17 Will Be a Beefy Miracle === | | === The 5 most popular Linux distributions === |
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| [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-October/014052.html</ref> a note from internetnews.com on Fedora 17's winning release name:
| | "...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." |
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| "Fedora 17 will come up against Ubuntu 12.04 codenamed the Precise Pangolin. So for the first time ever, Fedora will have a funkier name than Ubuntu.
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| Let's hope (for Fedora's sake) that the release is beefier too, so they can relish a well name release!"
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/fedora-17-will-be-a-beefy-miracle.html</ref>. | |
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| === Fedora 17 Recognized as Beefy Miracle ===
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| [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-October/014053.html</ref> coverage in Network World on the upcoming release name as well:
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| "The past couple of weeks have been exciting over in the Fedora camp. Fedora 16 beta barely burst onto the scene when along came the codename announcement for the next release, Fedora 17, a.k.a Beefy Miracle"
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| "Beefy Miracle supporters put on a much more enthusiastic, energetic campaign than other codename candidates. There's the Beefy Miracle website, with its history page detailing the origins of the codename. And much like Obama supporters proudly wore the future president's face on t-shirts, Beefy Miracle voters showed their support with “The Mustard
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| The full post is available<ref>https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/beefymiracle</ref>.
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| === Users decide Fedora 17 will be 'Beefy Miracle' ===
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| [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-October/014054.html</ref>
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| "The users of the Linux distribution Fedora have voted on the name for the 17th build of the code base. The top choice? Beefy Miracle."
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| "Meanwhile, interest in the latest Fedora 16 beta is proving strong, and the Fedora team have added new features designed to make the system faster to boot and more suited to cloud and virtualization tasks. Jared Smith, project leader for The Fedora Project, told The Register that work was still going on to improve the code."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/12/fedora_17_beefy_miracle/</ref>.
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| === Fedora 16: Linux home for lost Ubuntu GNOMEs === | | === Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts === |
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| [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-October/014055.html</ref>:
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| "Fedora has always been a reasonably popular Linux distro, but now it is | | "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." |
| acting as a kind of flagship for the GNOME 3 desktop, since Ubuntu has
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| "For those who've already made peace with GNOME 3, Fedora 16 is looking
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| like one of the best ways to run the new shell environment. Not only is
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| Fedora 16, even as a beta build."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/fedora_16_beta_review/</ref>. | |
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| === Fedora 16 Beta on Slashdot === | | === Fedora 18 Linux Set To Package Spherical Cow Load of Features === |
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| Karin Bakis forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-October/014056.html</ref> a thread on Slashdot discussing Fedora 16 and GNOME 3.2:
| | "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." |
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| "Fedora 16 beta and OpenSuse 12.1 beta have been released. For most users the major change in each distro is Gnome 3.2. Fedora also adopts the new Linux 3 kernel and the GRUB2 bootloader."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/10/05/1715218/fedora-16-opensuse-121-betas-with-gnome-32#comments</ref>. | |
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| === Testers Wanted to Kick Tires on Fedora 16 Beta Release === | | === Fedora 18 schedule slips by a week === |
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| Karin Bakis forwarded<ref>http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fedora16-beta-released</ref> a post in Network World on the Fedora 16 beta launch:
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| "The Fedora project rolled out the beta version of Fedora 16 today and invites testers to take it for a spin. Current known bugs are listed in the Fedora wiki, and beta testers are encouraged to provide feedback to help fine tune the operating system before Fedora 16 rolls out in November.
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| In an email announcement, release engineer Dennis Gilmore says that Fedora 16 users can expect the GRUB2 bootloader, which automatically recognizes other operating systems and supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions. Gilmore says that only x86 systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default but work continues to make GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems, too. Systemd services management was added in Fedora 15, and Gilmore says better integration of Systemd via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init scripts in many software components means faster boot times for desktop users.
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| On the desktop, Fedora 16 users will see KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME 3.1 development release. HAL (hardware abstraction layer) has been completely removed, which means faster system bootup. And SELinux includes a new pre-built policy that will only rebuild policy if any customizations have been made. “A sample test run shows 4 times speedup on installing the package from 48 Seconds to 12 Seconds and max memory usage from 38M to 6M,” Gilmore explains.
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| A “cloud-ready” version of GlusterFS, HekaFS (formerly called CloudFS), has been added. Fedora 16 also features expanded virtual network support, new virtual machine lock manager, and improved ability to browse guest file systems, according to Gilmore. For developers, Fedora 16 offers updated Ada, Haskell, and Perl environments, a new Python plugin for GCC, and new and improved APIs."
| | "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." |
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/fedora16-beta-released</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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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].
