Fedora working with Seneca College
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://lwn.net/Articles/283274/rss
Digg It:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_working_with_Seneca_College
Red Hat has announced a partnership with Seneca College wherein students
will work with the Fedora project. "A new grant funds a liaison position
within the School of Computer Studies to work with Fedora Project
members to identify opportunities for student involvement and to guide
students as they integrate into the community. This proven model was
developed at Seneca and will be incorporated into several programs
beginning with the Linux/Unix System Administration (LUX) program, an
intense one-year graduate certificate. Fedora projects will be
integrated into academic coursework, used as major projects, or funded
through government grants."
Rahul
16 years
Fedora 9 (Sulphur)
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi.
http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/fedora9.htm
"Using the default Gnome desktop, Fedora 9 generally felt solid and
polished. Previous versions of Fedora have generally been hit or miss in
this respect, so it's good to find a Fedora release that actually feels
like a stable one"
Rahul
16 years
Fedora 9: Leading edge or bleeding edge?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Pretty interesting article. Take a look.
http://www.linux.com/feature/135685
Conclusion:
"Aside from the problems with PackageKit -- and, to a lesser extent, the
inclusion of KDE 4.0.3 -- Fedora 9 manages to balance innovation with a
high degree of usability. Over the last few months, Fedora has been
increasingly compared favorably with Ubuntu on both accounts, and, to a
large extent, it deserves this praise. If anything, it has probably
exceeded Ubuntu in innovation, with at least a dozen major new ideas in
every release. It is a rare release, too, in which Fedora's menus and
dialog do not show minor tinkering to fine-tune the user experience.
Yet the problems in Fedora 9 emphasize how difficult a balance the
Fedora project tries to maintain. The fact that improvements are coming
for both KDE and PackageKit, and that, meanwhile, workarounds exist, is
beside the point -- these facts are lucky accidents, and nothing that
Fedora has done.
Although Fedora's innovations make it one of the more interesting
distributions to use and watch these days, the project needs to temper
its creativity with more consideration of how changes affect users.
Perhaps these relatively minor problems will help the distribution
correct its release policies before a major disaster happens in a future
release."
Rahul
16 years
Romanian F9 release party
by Manuel Wolfshant
Hello
A small Fedora release party was organized during this weekend by a
couple of friends from the fedoraproject.ro team. Some pictures I took
are available at http://wdl.lug.ro/F9 (hopefully more pictures will be
added once all participants share their shots). The presentations covered
- general introduction to F9, with emphasis on some of the new elements
and changes (SELinux enhancements, major changes in Gnome, PolicyKit,
swfdec) - presented by Adrian Joian
- the narro localization project (http://code.google.com/p/narro/,
http://narro.i18n.ro/narro_project_list.php) presented by Alexandru
Szasz, a guest who traveled half the country for this special occasion
- KDE4 (changes vs KDE3), presented by Nicu Buculei using a KDE spin
stored on one of his many USB sticks and using Alex's laptop (aren't
virtual machines great ?)
- usb stick creation (practical demo, Nicu)
Questions (and their answers) were scattered along all presentations
and continued at lunch.
Thanks go to Gabi and Andrei Nicolau who took care of the conference
room and the infrastructure.
16 years
Bleeding-edge Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Someone should write a response. Feel free to brainstorm here.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519&mode=67#news
" Fedora 9 was released last week. As many users have discovered since
then, the latest version of Red Hat's community distribution is a rather
adventurous mix of bleeding-edge packages and experimental features. The
development version of X.Org 1.5 does not work well with any of the
proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers, which were promptly left out from
the stable Livna.org repositories. Similarly, Firefox 3.0b5 is a beta
build, lacking support for many popular add-ons. And there is KDE 4.0.3,
another experimental, buggy and feature-lacking desktop package that is
forced onto Fedora's KDE users without an alternative. No wonder that
many users are unhappy about some of the choices Fedora developers made
prior to the release. But as is always the case with this popular
distribution, things are bound to improve in the coming weeks. The first
major batch of package updates has already entered the testing
directory, so it shouldn't be long before they are pushed on to the end
users"
Rahul
16 years
Fedora 9 Out
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
http://java.sys-con.com/read/569254.htm
"Fedora 9 is out. Red Hat says its community-driven operating system
features the first non-destructive live USB with persistence – which Red
Hat thinks is a first of a kind anywhere – and marks the first major KDE
4-based distribution"
"Fedora 9 Live images can now be added to an existing USB key using
either a Linux or Windows application, without removing data, or
repartitioning or reformatting the USB key, to get a bootable, portable
Fedora system. And using the persistence feature, users can download and
store data, and remove and add software as on any normal Fedora system. "
Rahul
16 years
