LOL Of the Week: Fedora 8 A Serious Threat to Ubuntu

[Tejas Dinkar]

Slashdot reports it... it must be true ;)

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/30/1350238

On a more serious note, the reviewer liked the fedora spins idea.

PS: Yes, I know I'm starting a potential flamewar :p
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Tejas Dinkar
http://gja.in

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tejas Dinkar wrote:
>  Slashdot reports it... it must be true ;)
>  
>  http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/30/1350238
>  
>  On a more serious note, the reviewer liked the fedora spins idea.
>  
>  PS: Yes, I know I'm starting a potential flamewar :p 
Talking about spins, the article mentions this

"a Fedora release for gamers, developers and those who are interested in 
working with electronics outside of just computing. If there is one 
thing that is becoming obvious to me, it is Fedora's attack on Ubuntu."

As the guy working on the games spin, I never thought of spins as an 
attack on anything (and I doubt anyone did) but facilitating a targeted 
experience based on Fedora. Anyway it is a interesting view and we sure 
seemed to have improved our public perception. Good for us.

Rahul

[Jon Stanley]

On Dec 30, 2007 12:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  As the guy working on the games spin, I never thought of spins as an
>  attack on anything (and I doubt anyone did) but facilitating a targeted
>  experience based on Fedora. Anyway it is a interesting view and we sure
>  seemed to have improved our public perception. Good for us. 
Does Ubuntu even have targeted spins like that (maybe aside for
Edubuntu)?  I know that there are various desktop spins (GNOME, KDE,
XFCE), but nothing targeted to various user segments like a Fedora
spin that I'm aware of.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jon Stanley wrote:
>  On Dec 30, 2007 12:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  
> > As the guy working on the games spin, I never thought of spins as an
> > attack on anything (and I doubt anyone did) but facilitating a targeted
> > experience based on Fedora. Anyway it is a interesting view and we sure
> > seemed to have improved our public perception. Good for us.
>  
>  Does Ubuntu even have targeted spins like that (maybe aside for
>  Edubuntu)?  I know that there are various desktop spins (GNOME, KDE,
>  XFCE), but nothing targeted to various user segments like a Fedora
>  spin that I'm aware of. 
No, not officially which is one of the reasons why I find that quote 
pretty odd.

Rahul

Ps: You should get your blog on Planet Fedora. Refer 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet.