Misconceptions About Red Hat's Kernel Patches
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Good blog to point to when talking about kernel patches in Fedora.
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18195
"Talking with quite a few people at OLS last week, it seems there are
still quite a few misconceptions about just how patched various kernels
were throughout the history of Red Hat. One particularly egregious
statement I heard was 'Early Red Hat kernels had ~2000 patches'. Here's
some hard facts on exactly how many patches were in each release."
Rahul
16 years, 9 months
Fedora 7 - A Review
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Short review but does mention the new SELinux management tool most
reviews haven't looked at.
http://shiftbackspace.com/2007/06/10/fedora-7-a-review/
"After writing this entire review while using Fedora 7, I feel much
better about it. I am thoroughly impressed by the offering supported in
part by Red Hat and the community involved. Unfortunately, the choice to
use only non-proprietary software makes this distribution more difficult
to use “out-of-the-box”. However, I whole-heartedly commend the Fedora
team on ensuring that every aspect involved is within the free and
open-source boundaries and any user who wants additional functions can
easily get them using the yum installer. Another great thing Fedora has
going for it is that so many applications are offered as easy-to-install
.rpm (Red Hat package manager) files."
Rahul
16 years, 9 months
PC Advisor: Fedora 7.0 Linux distribution
by Luya Tshimbalanga
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1003
"Fedora is solid, and the people who use it and hack on it love it. We
think, however, that Ubuntu, because of its different focus, ends up
being a more inviting environment for Linux newcomers."
It looks like the review is heavily biased toward Ubuntu used as
reference. However, it raises some interesting points like the
inconsistency of the name of items inside the menu panel.
Luya
16 years, 9 months
Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election
by Max Spevack
I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board elections,
which are currently ongoing. If you are getting this message multiple
times, I'm sorry. It's being sent to various lists.
The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This
election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora Board seats. The Fedora Board is the
Fedora Project's "executive committee" and is ultimately accountable for
everything that happens within Fedora, and delegates responsibillity to
various sub-projects accordingly.
Information about the candidates and voting is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections
Voting will end at 11:59 PM UTC on Sunday July 8th. Anyone who has
signed the Fedora CLA is eligible to vote.
Thank you,
Max
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16 years, 9 months
Re: rotating banners, first idea
by chasd
> Here's some mockups, I'm not really happy with any of them right
> now but
> I need to sleep :)
Yes, seeing the banners in context makes a difference.
My comments below are meant to be constructive, excuse me if they
appear harsh.
> - http://linuxgrrl.com/misc/new-mock-1.png (bottom of sidebar)
> - feels a little unbalanced but not too bad
I actually like this layout the best of the three. I think the reason
it seems unbalanced is because of the large white area to the right
of the logo and above the title graphic ( I won't call it a banner to
avoid confusion ).
All layouts need "breathing space" however that top area is prime
visual real estate. I think adding a tag line to that area would
benefit the layout ( of all the pages, even if no banner is used ).
> - http://linuxgrrl.com/misc/new-mock-2.png (along top of page)
> - im afraid this is going to be too busy unless the banners are
> carefully designed to not stand out in comparison to the main banner.
I think the banner is too close to the title graphic, they compete
visually.
If the separation line between the top part of the page with the logo
and the banners could be a little stronger, that might help. I feel
the first mock up to be a stronger possibility.
> right now they are not :) thus they are too busy.
> - http://linuxgrrl.com/misc/new-mock-3.png (top of sidebar)
> - a little more balanced than the other but the banners don't
> line up
Again, I think the banner and the title graphic compete too much, and
the white space between them seems uncomfortable. This also makes the
navigation less important ( farther down the page ).
I took the liberty of moving the headline above the title graphic to
demonstrate what adding _something_ to the blank area at the top
could do to balance the layout for mock up number one. I placed it on
the website of the company I work for -
<http://www.silveroaks.com/images/new-mock-4cd.png>
In that mock up, I would like to see the "What's new in Fedora . . .
" link to be bigger and maybe have the type be heavier in weight, but
for the purposes of this demonstration I thought this was sufficient.
I also am not enamored with that specific tag line for the top right
area, I simply used something that already existed in the layout and
threw it up there. I also think the color of that tag line ( grey )
is not the best solution, or even the size of the type. The baseline
of the tag line is aligned with the baseline of "infinity | freedom |
voice" however it seems a bit low. When I placed it higher, it seemed
too "floaty" for me.
One other possibility is to fade the bottom of the title graphic to
white. Since the separation between the logo and the rest of the page
is a subtle fade, adding this touch to the title graphic may add some
consistency, This would also differentiate the banner from the title
graphic.
Apologies if my comments are out of line, or if I have violated some
rule established for the design of the web site.
Charles Dostale
16 years, 9 months
