Red Hat vs. Fedora

[Hugo Cisneiros]

Hi,

I was revising the pt_BR.po file from the anaconda-po translation, and 
noticed that I still see many Red Hat Linux names instead of Fedora. We 
should leave it? For example...

anaconda.pot
-
: ../partIntfHelpers.py:401
msgid ""
"You have chosen to use a pre-existing partition for this installation "
"without formatting it. Red Hat recommends that you format this 
partition to "
"make sure files from a previous operating system installation do not 
cause "
"problems with this installation of Linux. However, if this partition "
"contains files that you need to keep, such as a users home directories, 
then "
"you should continue without formatting this partition."
msgstr ""
-
#: ../rescue.py:257
#, python-format
msgid ""
"The rescue environment will now attempt to find your Red Hat Linux "
"installation and mount it under the directory %s.  You can then make any "
"changes required to your system.  If you want to proceed with this step "
"choose 'Continue'.  You can also choose to mount your file systems 
read-only "
"instead of read-write by choosing 'Read-Only'.\n"
"\n"
"If for some reason this process fails you can choose 'Skip' and this step
"
"will be skipped and you will go directly to a command shell.\n"
"\n"
msgstr ""
-
#: ../upgrade.py:475
msgid ""
"This system appears to have third party packages installed that overlap 
with "
"packages included in Red Hat Linux. Because these packages overlap, "
"continuing the upgrade process may cause them to stop functioning 
properly "
"or may cause other system instability.  Please see the release notes for "
"more information.\n"
"\n"
"Do you wish to continue the upgrade process?"
msgstr ""
-

Call the developers? Change and commit the changes to CVS? Or just leave 
this alone?

[]'s
Hugo

[Akbar S. Ahmed]

Hugo Cisneiros wrote:
>  I was revising the pt_BR.po file from the anaconda-po translation,
> and 
>  noticed that I still see many Red Hat Linux names instead of Fedora. We 
>  should leave it? For example... 
I'm not sure of the official line on this, but personnally I think we 
should go with Fedora. The last thing we want to do is confuse new 
users. Also, as we move forward I'm sure everyone will want to give 
Fedora its own flavor and "branding".

However, work that is done by Red Hat should of course stay copyright 
Red Hat.

Alternative opinions are welcome.

- Akbar

[Edward C. Bailey]

> >>>> "Akbar" == Akbar S Ahmed
> <akbar501(a)dslextreme.com&gt; writes: 
Akbar> Hugo Cisneiros wrote:
> > I was revising the pt_BR.po file from the anaconda-po
> translation, and
> > noticed that I still see many Red Hat Linux names instead of Fedora. We
> > should leave it? For example... 
Akbar> I'm not sure of the official line on this, but personnally I think
Akbar> we should go with Fedora. The last thing we want to do is confuse
Akbar> new users. Also, as we move forward I'm sure everyone will want to
Akbar> give Fedora its own flavor and "branding".

This seems reasonable to me, personally...

Akbar> However, work that is done by Red Hat should of course stay
Akbar> copyright Red Hat.

True.  However, it would be *really* nice if people that notice "Red Hat
Linux" in the .po files submit a bug to the appropriate package (anaconda,
in this case) to let the developers know that there might be an issue?  I
myself found a similar problem after Fedora Core had gone gold, and was
surprised that it had been completely missed by the developers...

                                Ed
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Ed Bailey        Red Hat, Inc.          http://www.redhat.com/