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Distrowatch: From Fedora 9 to OpenSUSE 11
by Pascal Calarco 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

The Distrowatch editor has been using Fedora 9 since release and is now moving over to try out SUSE 11.0. He makes a few comments about Fedora 9: "Before taking a first look at Novell's community distribution, let me start with a few remarks on Fedora's last two releases. It seems to be a trend among Linux distributions that an excellent release is often followed by a mediocre one. It's as if the distribution developers became complacent after one or two successful versions, thinking that nothing could possible go wrong six months down the line. As such, they get more adventurous, make wrong decisions, and add experimental features, the combination of which is often disastrous. With Fedora 9, I feel that the developers have negated all the great work they had done with previous 2 - 3 releases and went overboard with bleeding-edge software and features. No wonder Fedora 9 received barely a lukewarm reception by most reviewers, while many users were much less kind in their choice of words when describing their own experiences. My sentiments are no different from those expressed in many recent reviews. Fedora 8 was possibly the project's best release to-date - certainly not without its problems, but generally trouble-free, especially after the first waves of post-release bug fixes and software updates were applied to the distribution. On the other hand, Fedora 9 barely qualifies as a stable release. The decision to provide KDE 4 as the only KDE desktop was a painfully wrong one, particularly at the time when the vocal Fedora KDE team has been campaigning hard to convince the Linux community that Fedora was not a GNOME distro any more. And shipping a version of X.Org that did not work with any of the proprietary NVIDIA drivers also must have cost the distribution a few users." http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080623#feature - pascal

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Need help
by Danishka Navin 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hi All, I would like to know how we can serve Education System of a county using our Fedora products. ex: Fedora Localized Spins,etc Welcome your ideas, stories and case studies. -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com (use Sinhala Unicode fonts)

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Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.
by susmit shannigrahi 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Hi all, In our previous APAC ambassadors meeting we were discussing about this idea[1]. Generally the final/pre-final year engineering students need to do some project work on a topic. What I personally saw that they desperately search for one. we can make a lot of new contributors if we provide them with a project to work, some guidence and may be a certificate at the end. (As they say, target this segment :)) This way we can make much more widespread effect as the student partners themselves will spread Fedora within their peers and their college. Also we may talk about officially tie-up with some colleges. The basic idea is here[2]. Now the question id if this is worth taking up. If yes, lets refine it here. [1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg0024… [2]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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How-to in Spanish
by Diego Escobar 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Hi all: I have done a little how-to about basic configuration of Fedora 9. It was created for academic purposes (thinking in my local Linux Users Group named "UNPLUG") but maybe could be useful for more Spanish speakers people. (It is in spanish). This guide is unofficial of course, and is a collection of all my published posts (http://suservidorwp.blogspot.com) designed for newbies. Is part of spread Fedora on Latinoamerica, where people prefers Ubuntu because there are more blogs, wikis, and documentation in Spanish. If you consider useful this guide, you can download it in: http://suservidorwp.googlepages.com/fedora9.pdf Greetings. -- Diego Escobar Fedora Ambassador for Colombia Fedora Release 9 (Sulphur): Linux Kernel 2.6.25 + Gnome 2.22

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Java is finally Free and Open
by Rahul Sundaram 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/196 http://digg.com/software/Java_finally_open_and_free "This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). This means that it provides all the required Java APIs and behaves like any other Java SE 6 implementation - in keeping with the portability goal of the Java platform. As of writing, Fedora 9 is the only operating system to include a free and open Java SE 6 implementation that has passed the Java TCK. All of the code that makes this possible has been made available to the IcedTea project so everyone can benefit from the work." Rahul

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Re: Fedora-marketing-list Digest, Vol 48, Issue 24
by Arnav Kalra 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

we can also have a half completed project and students can take guidance from it

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Page for tracking local Media requests.
by susmit shannigrahi 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I have created a page under LocalContacts[1] page to track the requests fulfilled by local contacts. A single person is often calling up all the contacts. :) The page is here. Please fill in the data when you fulfill a request. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts/L… [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Re: Now, that I got people talking...
by Ricardo Garcia 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 8:57 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent turkovic gmail com> wrote: > > There are two projects; saya-videoeditor [3], myvideoeditor [4] > > saya currently relies on the OpenVIP media framework..which uses ffmpeg. > the reliance on ffmpeg makes its nearly impossible to include in > Fedora. I can not stress this enough, applications which have compile > time dependencies on ffmpeg will be difficult to place in Fedora. > Unless someone figures out how to patch out the encumbered > technologies in ffmpeg, we can't ship ffmpeg. And even if we did find > a way to patch out everything we can't distribute, it may not be worth > doing because we would be in effect shipping a significantly crippled > ffmpeg library since ffmpeg does not understand the concept of > pluggable runtime codec support. > > Its a real shame, if we could ship a limited version of ffmpeg which > support unencumbered codec technologies we would have the ability to > ship versions of several multimedia frameworks and applications. But > the way ffmpeg is structured as a project and a codebase, makes its > difficult to safely work with. > > -jef Hello. I'm Rick Garcia, from the Saya video editor. I have designed Saya so it can use *ANY* decoding library. It's not hardwired to FFMPEG and not even OpenVIP. Since OpenVIP was made GPLv3 just a few days ago, I can do whatever I want with it, like stripping FFMPEG support. The OpenVIP library is going to be embedded - not just linked - in the project. Actually, I'm going to separate OpenVIP from the codec processing so I can implement file decoding via plugins. But my dream codec library would be one with a pluggable architecture, so people could add their popular patent-encumbered codecs to it. But it needs to be cross-platform (i.e. Windows / Linux). If you know one, please don't hesitate in telling me. Sincerely, Rick Garcia Saya-VE Project Leader P.S. Now, where do I subscribe to this list?

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Now, that I got people talking...
by Markus McLaughlin 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

The real reason why I came up with the "fedoraLife" concept is to have a "Fedora Studio" spin established that either has the "fedoraLife" suite that enhances already established software OR puts the already established software "front and center." So people who work in multimedia can access their tools quickly and easily. So, people, let's see if we ALL can make this happen... *Mark McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA, USA*

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Fwd: Fedora TV Submission Form - PHP
by Jonathan Roberts 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hey all, Can I get some feedback on this? The third is an easy answer - but the first two are a little trickier. Why can't people just send an e-mail, and I have no idea about legal! Best, Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> Date: 2008/6/17 Subject: Re: Fedora TV Submission Form - PHP To: fedora-infrastructure-list(a)redhat.com On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > We've created a channel in Miro, Fedora TV, for use by the marketing > team with things like screencast tutorials/video interviews etc and we > want to make it easy for community people to submit their content. > > To do this, we planned to create a simple web form that collects the > users' data (Name, e-mail, video URL etc) and then sends that off to > an e-mail address. This e-mail address could either belong to a single > editor or a mailing list (the latter is preferred), so that we can > check it's relevant before adding it to the main channel feed for all > the world to see. > > We have a simple script in PHP to collect this form information and > e-mail it, and providing people don't think there are better > approaches to this, we would like to get it hosted so that we can use > it on Fedora Websites. > So I've got a couple of questions.... First of which being why can't people just email this stuff? Second being, and this is probably a question for legal, in order to submit that stuff to us via a web form, wouldn't we need to require cla done? Third being, how large of files are we talking about emailing around (be very specific)? Email and video often seem ill suited to eachother. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list

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