Fedora 14 Technical Notes

[John J. McDonough]

In last night's meeting it was observed that we might be light on
talking points and release notes, and that we might look at changed
packages that haven't gotten a feature page.

To that end, I have placed an updated version of the Fedora Technical
Notes at

http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/technical-notes/en-US

The Fedora Technical Notes lists all changes between Fedora 13 and
Fedora 14 Alpha, with links to the upstream website where available.
Note that only the US English version reflects Fedora 14 Alpha.  The
other languages are still Fedora 13.

--McD

[Mike Danko]

Pouring over these,  big standout is the inclusion of ROOT. I doubt
high-energy physics is a general target audience for something like
release notes, but perhaps I've stumbled on something. But, yet again,
I've stumbled upon something for the marketing people more than
anything.

Including ROOT in the release notes could be nothing other than vague
without a corresponding marketing piece with an interview and some
other goodies. Maybe CERN might have some input here? Just throwing
some thing on the table.

Then again the release notes are permanent fixtures meant to last the
test of time. A link to a marketing bit may be inappropriate. I
suppose a blurb could be written that doesn't include a marketing bit,
but the package is just too specific to mean anything to anyone.

There's also some significant upstream improvements in the ham radio
arena, maybe I'll try to scrape that together when its daylight. Not
trying to bring too much personal to the list here, but I've been
trying to get licensed for 17 years, and every time I went to take the
tests, someone died, a car would break down, I'd get robbed, etc...
yes, every time, several times a year, for 17 years. Today I passed,
and it might make for a good activity for me if you haven't jumped on
it yourself yet McD.

- Mike... err... KD8ORQ




On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:49 AM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr(a)arrl.net&gt; wrote:
>  In last night's meeting it was observed that we might be light
> on
>  talking points and release notes, and that we might look at changed
>  packages that haven't gotten a feature page.
>
>  To that end, I have placed an updated version of the Fedora Technical
>  Notes at
>
>  http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/technical-notes/en-US
>
>  The Fedora Technical Notes lists all changes between Fedora 13 and
>  Fedora 14 Alpha, with links to the upstream website where available.
>  Note that only the US English version reflects Fedora 14 Alpha.  The
>  other languages are still Fedora 13.
>
>  --McD
>
>
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[John J. McDonough]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 23:15 -0400, Mike Danko wrote:
>  Pouring over these,  big standout is the inclusion of ROOT. I doubt
I noticed that, but I also noticed a lot of R add-ons.  Probably a
bigger, but similar, user base.

And quickly browsing the CERN website earlier, they seem to be
positioning ROOT as a data analysis thing, not altogether unlike R but a
little glossier and able to handle much bigger datasets.  I didn't dig
far enough, tho, to tell whether there was really any meat there.  Of
course, a lot of the ROOT add-ons are pretty specifically for people
playing with particle accelerators.  Probably not a huge audience.

--McD

[Nathan Thomas]

On 13/08/10 04:27, John J. McDonough wrote:
>  On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 23:15 -0400, Mike Danko wrote:
>    
> > Pouring over these,  big standout is the inclusion of ROOT. I doubt
> >     
>  I noticed that, but I also noticed a lot of R add-ons.  Probably a
>  bigger, but similar, user base.
>     
R does seem to be gaining in popularity at the moment. I even saw in
mentioned in a BBC News article.

>  And quickly browsing the CERN website earlier, they seem to be
>  positioning ROOT as a data analysis thing, not altogether unlike R but a
>  little glossier and able to handle much bigger datasets.  I didn't dig
>  far enough, tho, to tell whether there was really any meat there.  Of
>  course, a lot of the ROOT add-ons are pretty specifically for people
>  playing with particle accelerators.  Probably not a huge audience.
>
>     
Yeah, the ROOT website mentioned that it was designed for use across
multiple workstations or on many-core machines. Still, there may be some
large institutions or businesses that may be interested in it. As Mike
pointed out, it's also interesting from a marketing point of view,
especially as F14 is codenamed after a major figure in particle physics.

I'll add a section to the release notes.

Nathan