<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>Il giorno 21/ago/06, alle ore 08:22, Nicu Buculei ha scritto:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html">http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/ubuntu_linux_a_threat_to_mac_o.html</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">...</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Are we missing something? or how should I put am I missing something?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Is ubuntu that much better than fedora?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If it is why is it?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>:-)</DIV><DIV>Something's in the air ... just few days ago I wrote on the "exitement" derivating from a Linux distribution [1]</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From what I see, the most impressive feature in Ubuntu seems to be its</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">hype making machine. Or should I say the fanboy recruiting machine?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>As i've said in another mail today Ubuntu was started and it's been developed to ATTRACT the common computer user to the free / open source software side of things.</DIV><DIV>Each of their move has been made clear, easy to get, and "light" to read. And this attracts people (as we all in the linux community has witnessed in those last 2 years).<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is a department where historically Fedora and Red Hat does not shine (even Novell is louder here).</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Funny, "Reverend" Ted [2] commented to me that I was "correct that Novell could be doing much better on this."</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> I do not know to what degree this is intentional (maybe the desire to not create unfounded</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">expectations), but it certainly fired back in the early days of Fedora. It seems to improve, but very slowly.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Well, after reading Max's interview on /. this can be seen as a mistake from Red Hat's side at the time of the "splitting".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We do have to re-think to our "voice" on the Fedora .... Planet Fedora is great, we should try to convert that energy into the wiki/main site.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>c ya</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>[1] = <A href="http://koolinus.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/geek-buzz-and-real-world/">http://koolinus.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/geek-buzz-and-real-world/</A><DIV>[2] = http://reverendted.wordpress.com/</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. Losito</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>http://www.koolinus.net</DIV><DIV>http://koolinus.wordpress.com</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>