Fedora Online Magazine
by Anand Capur
What do you guys think of putting a team together and making a Fedora Online
Magazine? I would head it (Be the editor-in-chief), and we would publish it
every 2 months (with some other special releases). I really think this would
be good for us. We would have no costs besides hosting for the magazine
which I think the web team could take care of (I'll ask them also). We could
have a set few staff (5-10), and then have open submission where all the
members of the community can send in articles, and the staff would pick the
best to go in. I'd license the magazine under Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (or something else?) the point is it
wouldn't be copyrighted (or it can be... but i'd prefer it to be open). We
could arrange to get it printed in the future and take advertisements from
people in the community. No stupid ads for some buy this coffee maker
today..unless the coffee maker runs fedora;). So yeah, I just wanna get
approval, and see how it goes. If you wanna be on the staff and you are a
good writer (duh....) just email me (acapur{At]arcnetworks[dot}biz). It
could really market fedora, get us more users, and teach our users new
things. I really wanna do this, I've got some really good ideas!!
P.S. I've BCC'ed this to the Ambassadors list.
Thanks,
Anand Capur
(Fedora Ambassador)
16 years, 10 months
Magazine Fedora 7
by pingou
Dear all,
As a member of the French Fedora ambassador team, I am proud to
announce you the future release of an entirely magazine dedicated Fedora7.
The announce of the release of the magazine is available there :
http://www.linuxidentity.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11
The magazine will be published in France for 9,95€, it contains 2 DVDs
(i386 & x86_64).
The summary of the magazine is:
* Contents of DVDs
* Fedora 7 installation
* Dual boot: Fedora and Windows
* Working with Windows partitions under Fedora 7
* Packages management
* Packages sources configuration
* Fedora 7 system configuration
* Wireless card (Wi-Fi) configuration
* Configuration and utilization of ADSL connection
* Web plugins installation
* Fedora-fr community
And as we wrote more article than needed, there will be 9 extras
articles focused
on Fedora 7 available on Linux Identity website.
These articles are :
* Emacs - an editor can even make a coffee
* GPG - communication encryption
* VIM - unix text editor
* XChat-GNOME - new frontend to X-Chat IRC
* Working with command line
* Beagle - an efficient search tool
* Multimedia on Fedora 7
* Pidgin - multiprotocol messenger
* 3D desktop
We added the link on the fedoraproject:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive/F7
To those who are familiar with french I hope you will enjoy it :-)
I would like to thank all people who helped us in a way or another
Of course the other co-writers:
*Benoît Marcelin (French ambassador)
*Haïkel Guémar (French ambassador)
And thanks to
*Johan Cwiklinski (who provided us write support throuth his wiki)
(French ambassador)
*Maxime Carron (who gave us nice advices) (French ambassador)
*Cerber666 (our awesome reviewer) (French user)
Also thanks to all the other that I forget...
Best regards,
Pierre-Yves / pingou
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16 years, 10 months
Feedback on GITEX Exhibition Questionnaire
by John Babich
I posted a questionnaire at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/GitexQuestionnaire
from the folks at GITEX, the prominent ICT exhibition being held
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 8-12 September.
Since this is the first event that I am attending (and organizing) as a
Fedora Ambassador, I would appreciate it if you would take the
time to review my responses. Feel free to offer any improvements.
Note that GITEX is a commercial exhibition, so I have emphasized
the commercial advantages of Fedora Linux and FOSS applications
in general.
John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Project
16 years, 10 months
Hats!
by Jonathan Roberts
Hi all,
I have no idea if this is the best list to send this question to, but
you'll point me elsewhere if not right!?
I just watched the F7 promo...the baseball hat with the Fedora logo on
looked awesome! Where/how can I get one?! Fedora clothing would be
cool, with such an amazing logo :D
I know creative commons etc use Goodstorm for products, although I
can't purchase them from the UK :(
Cheers,
Jon
16 years, 10 months
Fedora 7 Xen First Look
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
"Overall, the tools for Xen management are coming along quite nicely,
actually developing a bit faster than I expected, and Fedora 7 is a
great place to try them out. They will certainly ease Xen management
(and other virtualization technologies on Linux, for that matter) in the
future and I look forward to taking advantage of them when they make
their way into RHEL 5.1."
http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/06/07/fedora-7-xen-fi...
Rahul
16 years, 10 months
A new overview of Fedora: Highlights?
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
The overview wiki page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview is
rather lame now and needs to be rewritten from scratch considering the
current highlights and unique improvements in Fedora.
It is linked prominently from the frontpage of fp.o so this is a pretty
high priority. I would like to change this into a static page but we
need the content written first.
So what do we highlight in Fedora?
* Strongly Free software focus. Free, open software and content
(integration with Jamendo, Magnatune ..). 100% redistributable.
* Predictable bi-yearly new releases with every release maintained for
next two releases + month translates to over an year and month of updates.
* Sponsored by Red Hat (Engineering, funds, marketing etc) with high
amount of contributions
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions) leading to
innovative changes. Development and integration of SELinux, Xen, mugshot
etc. Working in partnership with the Free and open source software
community with large number of volunteers.
* Choice of installable live and regular images.
* Graphical and text based installer (Anaconda) and administration tools
(system-config-*)
* Strong security features - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features
* Unique virtualization management capabilities -
http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/06/innovation-in-virtualization-m...
* Base for important derivatives and ports like RHEL, OLPC, Sony
PlayStation 3 powered by IBM Cell processors etc.
[Secondary architecture support for Sparc, Alpha, IA64, Arm etc to follow]
* Easy to build upon, derive from and create custom spins and appliances
- Open build system (koji), composing tools (pungi and mash),
livecd-tools and graphical wrapper (Revisor). livecd-tools and pungi
uses kickstart and kickstart style manifest files and hence barrier to
understanding and adaptation is low.
Anything else?
Rahul
16 years, 10 months
Opensolaris and Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Here is another article comparing them briefly
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn060107-story01.html
"The details of Project Indiana are a bit thin, in fact, and the
processes behind Fedora 7 are far more slick at this point. You can see
a lot of bickering back and forth in Glynn's posting, which is how
Sun--er, I mean OpenSolaris--announced what the project was all about.
The idea is not fully cooked, but Sun would do well to just do exactly
what the Fedora project has done with Fedora 7. Which is to make a
source and binary build system that is Web-aware and that can create
personalized distributions that suit the needs of anyone looking to do
anything."
Rahul
16 years, 10 months
Fedora Struggles to Come into Its Own
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
This article is based on a interview with Max Spevack. One interesting
trend is that this article and to a mixed extend the earlier distrowatch
review posted talks about improvements while also painting a picture of
struggle in growth.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3680951
"Red Hat, Spevack suggests, has shifted from being "Fedora's sponsor" to
being "Fedora's biggest customer," and Fedora from being a farm-team to
a community in its own right."
" One of these benefits is Revisor, an initiative of the new Fedora
Unity sub-project developed independently of the official processes.
Taking advantage of the new openness, Revisor is a wizard that guides
users step-by-step through the building of "re-spins" or customized
variations of Fedora."
"For the larger free software community, another benefit of Fedora's new
openness is Smolt, an opt-in hardware profiler that allows the project
to collect data about the equipment on which Fedora installs. Even
before the release of Fedora 7, Smolt has been ported to the openSUSE
distribution. Spevack anticipates the creation of a neutral website
where information gathered by Smolt is available for all distributions
that carry it."
Rahul
Ps: I couldn't find any information on smolt integration with OpenSUSE.
Does anyone have details?
16 years, 10 months
