Hello to all....
by Udit Sharma
I am Udit Sharma , a student of Kautilya Institute of Technology, Jaipur. I
am doing my B.tech in Computer Science. Currently in my 3rd year. I am web
Developer/Designer for last 3 years & contributing a lot to Open Source
Environment, I love Open source & I love Linux especially Fedora
Distribution. I am Mozilla Campus REP too and handling a lot of projects
under Mozilla Campus Club.Today I sign up for Fedora Ambassador program to
spread the word Fedora to the people.
Regards
Udit Sharma
14 years, 6 months
what is fedora?
by Jonas Karlsson
After reading a lot of pressreleases and surfing around reading papers
in magazines about fedora, I keep wondering what is Fedora? And
specifically what is fedora to the general pulic! Don't get me wrong,
I've known linux since before RedHat was born, and been a fedora user
since early pre fc1. Why do I raise this question then? Well the tought
that occurs to me is: is fedora a community driven project or is it a
Redhat EL playground. Today it is both.... But when you read
pressreleases and info about fedora in the papers, fedora do not stand
on its own. Many magazines writes similair to: "Fedora is the test
version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux" and to me that has the sound of a
product in development or in beta. Then there are magazines that
occationally get it right and talks about a community driven project,
and the next thing that occurs is you read a copyright notice. When
installing F10 you get a "Copyright © 2003-2008 RedHat, Inc. and others.
All rights reserved." Well there is the 'others' part... but it do not
have the sound of community, well others.... I'm not writing this as an
against RH thing, if it hadn't been for RH, 'the linux os' wouldn't
progressed to what it is today. I'm writing this because I think it is
not entirely clear what fedora is to the general public. This is
important to gain ground, to get the message out that fedora is not a
testbed product, but a product that incorporates new leading edge features.
Am I compleatly wrong or have anyone of you been asking the question,
what is fedora?
btw, F10 is king!
//J
14 years, 6 months
F10 Marketing
by wonderer
Hey guys,
I was searching for some press stuff for F10, but at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressReleases I did'nt found
there any texts about F10 I can use out of the box. Does anybody know
where I can find it?
For F10 I can update the presskit, but maybe someone has some main
points I can put in.
best regards
Henrik Heigl - wonderer(a)fedoraproject.org
14 years, 6 months
Defending the flame of Linux freedom
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
An interview with Max Spevack, former leader of Fedora Project on his
role in the community architecture team
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/defending-the-flame-of-linux-free...
"There's a continuum of distros with respect to how they view freedom,
and I think we take a pretty hard line in terms of what we will or will
not include in Fedora and on the repositories, and I think people
appreciate that and want to see Red Hat defend free software as well.
That's what I mean by keeping trust."
Rahul
14 years, 6 months
Upgrading to the newest Fedora release
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Details out upgrading manually, using cd/dvd, using fedora-release and
yum, preupgrade. A fairly complete reference
http://www.linux.com/feature/153984
"Once a release is available, you can run PreUpgrade at any time by
entering the command preupgrade as root (in Fedora 10 and later, you
will be able to start the program directly from PackageKit, the default
software installer). PreUpgrade is a wizard that steps you through the
necessary upgrade steps. Your only input to the wizard is to select the
distribution to which to upgrade, and click the Apply and Forward
buttons to move through the wizard. PreUpgrade downloads the packages
needed by the upgrade, and you can continue to work until you are ready
to reboot and finish the process.
Using PreUpgrade is probably the easiest way to upgrade, and from the
traffic on the Fedora user list, it's probably the one that most people
plan to use on Fedora 10."
Rahul
14 years, 6 months
Fedora 10 debuts with nips, tucks
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/25/fedora_10_launch/
"Having shelled out a lot of cash, Red Hat is pretty pumped about KVM,
and as Fedora project manager, Frields isn't being subtle about Xen.
"People should look at that as a harbinger," he says. "Fedora has always
been the trendsetter for Linux technologies, and a lot of the
technologies in Fedora become de facto standards."
"Fedora 10 has a number of neat-o features that Linux enthusiasts will
want to take out for a spin. The Network Manager now has an "instant on"
collaboration feature that allows for a machine with an Ethernet or
mobile broadband connection to share that connection with other wireless
machines in its vicinity."
14 years, 6 months
Fedora 10: the GNU/Linux Desktop Steps Forward
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi,
Somewhat, a long article but worth a read
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3786911/Fedora+10:+...
"A less stressful but still demanding background issue is the rapid
growth of the community. According to Frields, membership in the Fedora
community has gone from under 2000 to over 15,000 in the last year.
Frields attributes this growth to a number of factors, including the
effort under his leadership to make the steps in becoming part of the
community easier; the doubling in size of the ambassador program,
Fedora's grass roots evangelism effort; Fedora's emphasis on good
relations with the upstream community (that is, the individual projects
that go into a distribution), and the realization by business that
Fedora is the place to see the content of upcoming releases of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. "
Rahul
14 years, 6 months
