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=== | === Linus Torvalds' personal Linux distro? Fedora 9, of course === | ||
Larry Cafiero reported[1] that the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, currently uses Fedora 9 "on most of his computers" as reported in a recent interview[2]. "I've used different distributions over the years ... Fedora had fairly good support for PowerPC back when I used that, so I grew used to it. But I actually don't care too much about the distribution, as long as it makes it easy to install and keep reasonably up-to-date," Torvalds added. | |||
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/ | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00150.html | ||
[2] http://www. | [2] http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/linus-torvalds,-geek-of-the-week/ | ||
=== Open Source in Brazil's Supreme Court === | === Open Source in Brazil's Supreme Court === | ||
Revision as of 12:11, 26 July 2008
Marketing
In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Linus Torvalds' personal Linux distro? Fedora 9, of course
Larry Cafiero reported[1] that the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, currently uses Fedora 9 "on most of his computers" as reported in a recent interview[2]. "I've used different distributions over the years ... Fedora had fairly good support for PowerPC back when I used that, so I grew used to it. But I actually don't care too much about the distribution, as long as it makes it easy to install and keep reasonably up-to-date," Torvalds added.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00150.html
[2] http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/linus-torvalds,-geek-of-the-week/
Open Source in Brazil's Supreme Court
Teseu [1] publicized that the Supreme Court in Brazil is starting to initially replace Microsoft Office for OpenOffice in the Supreme Court offices there [2]. This will hopefully expand to other software applications as well, he indicates.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00112.html
[2] http://teseu.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/o-primeiro-passo-para-um-mundo-maior/
Improved audio from Paul Frields' 2008 FudCon talk
Valent Turkovic reported [1] that he enhanced the audio on Paul Frields' FudCon 2008 talk [2] that is available on FedoraTV [3], and posted how he did it. Jeff Spaleta remarked that "[y]ou just validated what we are trying to do here by having everything openly licensed and publicly available." [4]
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00115.html
[2] http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/files/fudconf10paulfrields.ogg
[3] https://miroguide.com/channels/6891
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00120.html
#1 Supercomputer in the World Runs Fedora
Rahul Sundaram shared [1] his posting on OSNews [2] documenting that the $100 million IBM Roadrunner [3], the current fastest supercomputer in the world, runs Fedora Linux.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00122.html
[2] http://osnews.com/story/20054/_1_Supercomputer_in_the_World_Runs_Fedora
[3] http://www.top500.org/system/9485
July 17th Marketing Meeting: A new Fedora Brand Motto
Michael Beckwith posted [1] the log of the July 2008 Marketing meeting. One of the major topics of the meeting was the Fedora brand of "infinity / freedom / voice" vs. the motto of "friends / freedom / features / first", developed earlier this year. Paul Frields later posted [2] that these new "four foundations" need to come to the front and become the new motto for Fedora. He invites ideas to express the four foundations graphically, and is going to be moving the request into the Artwork project queue.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00141.html
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2008-July/msg00142.html