Interview with Greg Dekoenigsberg - Red Hat Community Architect
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interview-with-greg...
"Our greatest strength is our association with Red Hat, which is an
incredible company that believes deeply in Free Software. Hundreds of
the best engineers in the world are paid to work on Fedora, and they
work alongside thousands of volunteers who are just as passionate. The
relationship between Redhatters and volunteers teaches both how to make
better software.
Our greatest weakness is our association with Red Hat, which is a
grown-up company and has grown-up company problems. Last year's security
incident is a perfect example; once it became clear that there had been
an intrusion, we immediately had to cut off communication with even our
most trusted community members, so that the company could pursue
appropriate legal actions."
Rahul
14 years, 11 months
Start of F11 Marketing and Press Push
by Jack Aboutboul
Hello All,
The press push for Fedora 11 will be in full effect starting tomorrow.
Below is what I will post to the Fedora planet and submit to other news
channels tomorrow. Something will be posted about this to announce list
tomorrow. Also, this is what should be distributed by the NDN folks and
please ambassadors and others if you can help drum up support by linking
to this, that would be great.
Of course let me know what you think. I will be tweaking this again
assuming I get some good feedback. I will be back on the computer at
around 11pm.
Thanks
Jack
--------------
The Countdown to Fedora 11 - "Fedora 11 General Overview with Fedora
Release Engineer Jesse Keating"
Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away. The excitement is in the air as
well can't wait to see the product a more than a few long months of hard
work. It's prime time to start the countdown clock and start talking
about the upcoming release, talk about what users can expect to see,
highlight new features and describe some of the enhancements that we can
all look forward too. As part of a series of Podcast and print
interviews, Today, I would like to present the first podcast in the
Fedora 11 Podcast series, an Interview with long time Fedora contributor
and Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating. The Audio can be found here:
http://jack.fedorapeople.org/Fedora 11 Overview - Jesse Keating.mp3
In the interview, Jesse talks to us about the achievement milestone of
putting together 11 releases, the process of planning and putting
together a Fedora release, how it was done for F11 and also some of the
tools, which he helped create which are used to put together the Fedora
distribution. He talks about Pungi [https://fedorahosted.org/pungi/]
and Revisor [http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/] which are tools used to
compose the Fedora tree and create a custom remix or re-spin,
respesctively. He also talks about some of the changes which have taken
place under the hood to enable Fedora's new super fast boot up. Jesse
takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the greatest enhancements we can
look forward to in F11, including changes to PackageKit and a new
upstream version of RPM, the new default ext4 filesystem, enhanced
fingerprint support for authentication and what we can look forward to
in the future releases of Fedora.
The Full Fedora 11 Feature list can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and you can look
forward to more in depth coverage of some of those features and of the
upcoming release in the days to come. Fedora 11 is sure to prove a
highly innovative and technology advanced release.
Fedora 11. Get ready. There's reason to be excited!
14 years, 11 months
CORRECTION: The Countdown to Fedora 11 Begins
by Jack Aboutboul
Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away. The excitement is in the air and
we all can't wait to see the product of more than a few long months of
hard work. It's prime time to start talking about what users can expect
to see, highlight new features and describe some of the enhancements
that we can all look forward too. As part of a series of podcast and
print interviews, Today, I would like to present the first podcast in
the Fedora 11 Podcast series, an interview with long time Fedora
contributor and Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating. The audio can be
found here:
"Fedora 11 General Overview with Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating"
-
[http://jack.fedorapeople.org/Fedora%2011%20Overview%20-%20Jesse%20Keating...]
In the interview, Jesse talks to us about the achievement milestone of
putting together 11 releases, the process of planning and putting
together a Fedora release, how it was done for F11 and also some of the
tools, which he helped create which are used to put together the Fedora
distribution. He talks about Pungi [https://fedorahosted.org/pungi/] and
Revisor [http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/] which are tools used to
compose the Fedora tree and create a custom remix or re-spin,
respectively. He also talks about some of the changes which have taken
place under the hood to enable Fedora's new faster and improved boot up.
Jesse takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the greatest enhancements
we can look forward to in F11, including changes to PackageKit and a new
upstream version of RPM, the new default ext4 filesystem, enhanced
fingerprint support for authentication and what we can look forward to
in the future releases of Fedora.
The Full Fedora 11 Feature list can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and you can look
forward to more in depth coverage of some of those features and of the
upcoming release in the days to come. Fedora 11 is sure to prove a
highly innovative and technologically advanced release.
Fedora 11. Get ready. There's reason to be excited!
14 years, 11 months
The Countdown to Fedora 11 Begins!
by Jack Aboutboul
Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away. The excitement is in the air as
well can't wait to see the product of more than a few long months of
hard work. It's prime time to start the countdown clock and start
talking about the upcoming release, talk about what users can expect to
see, highlight new features and describe some of the enhancements that
we can all look forward too. As part of a series of Podcast and print
interviews, Today, I would like to present the first podcast in the
Fedora 11 Podcast series, an Interview with long time Fedora contributor
and Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating. The Audio can be found here:
"Fedora 11 General Overview with Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating"
-
[http://jack.fedorapeople.org/Fedora%2011%20Overview%20-%20Jesse%20Keating...]
In the interview, Jesse talks to us about the achievement milestone of
putting together 11 releases, the process of planning and putting
together a Fedora release, how it was done for F11 and also some of the
tools, which he helped create which are used to put together the Fedora
distribution. He talks about Pungi [https://fedorahosted.org/pungi/] and
Revisor [http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/] which are tools used to
compose the Fedora tree and create a custom remix or re-spin,
respesctively. He also talks about some of the changes which have taken
place under the hood to enable Fedora's new super fast boot up. Jesse
takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the greatest enhancements we can
look forward to in F11, including changes to PackageKit and a new
upstream version of RPM, the new default ext4 filesystem, enhanced
fingerprint support for authentication and what we can look forward to
in the future releases of Fedora.
The Full Fedora 11 Feature list can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and you can look
forward to more in depth coverage of some of those features and of the
upcoming release in the days to come. Fedora 11 is sure to prove a
highly innovative and technology advanced release.
Fedora 11. Get ready. There's reason to be excited!
14 years, 11 months
Fedora 11 Packaging
by Keiran Smith
Hey,
I have just spoken with the owner of my local computer store and he is
wiling to put a Fedora Information leaflet and free media box on his shop
counter. I was wondering if we have any boxes to hold the disks pre-made for
fedora 11. If so where can I find it. I know we have one for fedora 10.
I am also looking at other locations to put free media boxes around west
lothian in scotland.
Thanks for reading and any information would be helpful,
Keiran Smith
- Fedora Ambassador / BugZapper - <affix(a)fedoraproject.org>
- Free Software Foundation Associate - <keiran.smith(a)member.fsf.org>
- http://keiran-smith.net
14 years, 11 months
podcats/in-depth-feature rollout plan
by Max Spevack
Jack and I just spoke about the in-depth-feature and podcast rollout
plan as part of the lead-up to Fedora 11.
I'm going to summarize the general plan that we discussed here for any
comments. Jack, note that I've made a few tweaks from what we discussed
on the phone.
All news is slated to hit at 10:00 AM EDT (UTC -4).
We should try to get news pieces out on Mondays, Tuesdays, and
Thursdays, leading up to the final release.
TODOs:
(1) Start determining the focus of each date's news, and filling in the
schedule.
(2) Determine what the "release news about FOO" process actually looks
like -- coordination w/ Planet, announce-list, News Distribution
Network, Paul Frields, and Caroline Kazmerski.
(3) Wikify this stuff.
Jack, I'll let you run with it from here. I'm very interested to see
comments from folks, and also volunteers to help out with different
pieces of this.
The rest of this email is a proposed schedule.
===
Fri May 8 -- draft of May 11 news to fedora-marketing-list
Mon May 11 -- release news about ???
Mon May 11 -- draft of May 12 news to fedora-marketing-list
Tue May 12 -- release news about ???
Wed May 13 -- draft of May 14 news to fedora-marketing-list
Thu May 14 -- release news about ???
Friday May 15 -- draft of May 18 news to fedora-marketing-list
Mon May 18 -- release news about ???
Mon May 18 -- draft of May 19 news to fedora-marketing-list
Tue May 19 -- release news about ???
Wed May 20 -- draft of May 21 news to fedora-marketing-list
Thu May 21 -- release news about ???
Fri May 22 -- draft of May 25 news to fedora-marketing-list
Mon May May 25 -- release news about ???
May 26 -- F11 final release
14 years, 11 months
Best Linux distros for power users, gamers, newbies and more
by Ankur Sinha
hi,
"Firstly, Fedora just looks better, despite being built around the same
Gnome desktop as Debian. The astronomical theme that accompanies you
while you launch the operating system is carried on to the blue desktop,
and there's a distinct feeling that a lot of love has gone into Fedora's
default theme.
Secondly, Fedora manages to include OpenOffice.org 3, while Debian is
still a revision behind, and Fedora's version of Firefox keeps the
original branding, rather than the confusing rebranding of all things
Mozilla insisted on by the Debian developers."
"For every day desktop use, Fedora can't be beaten. The choice of
software is excellent, and we can't think of anything that's missing.
Fedora's stance on freedom is a little painful if you need proprietary
drivers or MP3 support, but these issues can be worked around."
:D
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/best-linux-distr...
regards,
Ankur
14 years, 11 months
