Fedora 9 tools demystify installation and upgrades
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://www.linux.com/feature/135697
"The Fedora project has always offered installation options. The best
known of these options are the Fedora spins -- roll-your-own install
images that emphasize a particular desktop or purpose, such as providing
the distribution's complete repository on DVD. With Fedora 9, the
project has expanded its traditional emphasis with two new tools:
LiveUSB Creator, a Windows application for producing live Fedora flash
drives, and PreUpgrade, a wizard to help existing users move from one
release to another. Each in its own way helps to clarify part of the
process of installing the Fedora operating system."
Rahul
16 years
Fedora 9 Review
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://www.mjmwired.net/linux/2008/05/22/fedora-9-review/
"I’m not a big fan of shipping development versions of software, but in
the open source world - everything is development software. Overall I am
not super thrilled with Fedora 9 on the desktop but the drastic
improvements on the laptop front are well worth it."
Rahul
16 years
Seneca College Includes Fedora In Curriculum
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26626/news.htm
"Fedora and open source breeds a culture of contribution rather than
just consumption," stated Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, Red Hat.
"In the same vein, we hope this partnership will not only benefit the
students at Seneca College, but will also provide a programme and
curriculum that is transferable to other academic institutions to
develop future leaders as the demand for open source continues to
increase worldwide."
"Chris Tyler from Seneca College's School of Computer Studies is a
long-time Fedora contributor and will serve as lead professor on this
initiative."
Rahul
16 years
Meeting today
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hi folks. We've got a meeting today for 3pm, but honestly, (a) I've got
other things that are more pressing, and (b) now that the release is out
the door, I'm thinking maybe meeting every other week is a good idea for a
while.
So I won't be leading today's meeting, is what I'm saying. :) If folks
want to get together and have an informal meeting, or even a formal
meeting that drives the agenda, that's fine -- I'll follow along.
The agenda page, lest we forget:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Tasks
--g
16 years
Where is Sinhala support?
by Danishka Navin
Hi All,
I was wondering, how come Sinhala Support removed from the Fedora 9 LiveCD.
[1]
There is no Sinhala interface for the Fedora 9 installation (tested on
X86_64), installed Sinhala support dring the post installation.
But Fedora 8 was really good for the Sinhala support.
Not only that till Fedora 8, it was the only distro, which gave default
support for the Sinhala and it was appreciated by government people as well.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447860
Regards,
--
Danishka Navin
http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com (use Sinhala Unicode fonts)
16 years
FUDcon photos & release forms?
by Máirín Duffy
Hi folks,
One idea I had for FUDcon was to take as many pictures as possible that
the Marketing and Art teams could use later to give our website and
marketing materials a more personal touch, with pictures of actual
Fedora developers and users.
Does anyone know what responsibilities are involved in making sure that
the photos are usable for this purpose? Do you know about (or maybe
could refer us to) someone who would know about writing up photo release
forms?
~m
16 years
open account requests
by Karsten Wade
We're seeing more people joining Fedora and requesting to join various
subprojects and SIGs. I suspect the ease of FAS2 combined with the
fresh hoopla around the release has attracted people. Let's not
disappoint them by leaving their request for a group in limbo. Yet ...
Some people seem to be requesting group access without first knowing
what a group is or what they need to do, such as send a self-intro. My
suggestion is to reject those after giving them sufficient time to do
the self-intro etc.
We definitely do not want to sponsor people just because they checked a
box and clicked Submit. Save your sponsorship for people who really
mean to be there.
Also, I'm putting in an RFE for the account system to add a "reason"
field with the rejection process[1], so we can explain why someone was
rejected, such as not following the established process at
ProjectName/Join. Meanwhile, it is probably a good practice to send an
email to the person telling them they can re-apply after they follow the
per-SIG/subproject steps for account access.
- Karsten
(I am sending this duplicate email to multiple locations that need to
resolve this process.)
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fas/ticket/50
--
Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr.
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16 years
