August 2011 - [MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing

[In the news] Infographic sums up Linux then and now

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/new-linux-foundation-infographic-s... "One of the most telling stats, based on information gathered from LinuxCon registrations this year, is how the different distributions have won or lost favor with users. Although Fedora used to hold nearly half the market share (45%), it has now dropped firmly into second place (28%) behind the growing popularity of Ubuntu (34%). One positive aspect of this change is more distributions are getting users’ attention and use, and Linux Mint has recently joined the more well-known and older distros on the list." Rahul

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[In the news] Feature preview of Fedora 16 installer

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/08/08/feature-preview-of-fedora-16-installer/ "GPT, the GUID Partition Table, is an alternate disk partition table scheme that solves two problems associated with the MBR (Master boot Record) partition table. It allows the configuration of more than four primary partitions, the maximum supported by MBR, and also supports disk partitions of more than 2 TB. So GPT will be the default partition table scheme on Fedora 16" Rahul

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[In the news] Fedora Postpones Switch To Btrfs; Fedora 17 Is Now The Target Release For The Switch

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://digitizor.com/2011/08/10/fedora-16-no-btrfs/ "The Fedora developers have listened and have decided that Fedora 16 will not use Btrfs by default. The announcement was made by Josef Bacik, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Bacik, however, mentioned that Btrfs is still being considered as the default filesystem for future release of Fedora. The target release to have Btrfs by default has been shifted to Fedora 17 now." Rahul

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[In the news] Fedora 16 to skip btrfs by default

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/77452 "I'm actually encouraged by the fact that btrfs is being delayed for default for another release. It shows that the Fedora release process and objectives are working well. Bacik has also displayed a great deal of patience (as far as I've seen, anyway) with bug reports and complaints while working to get it up to speed." Rahul

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[In the news] Fedora not to switch to Btrfs in version 16

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-not-to-switch-to-Btrfs-in-v... "Recently, it became apparent that Btrfs has not met the stipulated criteria. The main reason for this continues to be the still ongoing development of a decent program for testing and repairing Btrfs file systems. Bacik had previously hoped that such a program would be released in May; now, the developer has mentioned a time frame of "a few weeks", but has also said that the developers' target is the Linux Plumbers Conference, which will start on 7 September. The Fedora project will probably make a second attempt to switch in Fedora 17." Rahul

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Oracle, SUSE, Red Hat drive 70% of LibreOffice development

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-suse-red-hat-drive-70-of-lib... "Upon the release of LibreOffice 3.4.2, the Document Foundation announced that Oracle and SUSE each contributes roughly 25 percent of the latest commits, while Red Hat contributed another 20 percent. Following Oracle’s donation of Openoffice to the Apache Foundation earlier this year, The Document Foundation wants to reassure the technology public that corporate support for LibreOffice is strong and that this Office suite is “enterprise ready.” " Rahul

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[In the news] Can GNOME 3 Become the Next Big Open Source Contender?

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/08/02/can-gnome-3-become-the-next-big-open-... "There’s a lot to like about GNOME Shell in its current form. It’s functional, graceful and arguably more intuitive than Canonical’s Unity, which suffers, for instance, from the lack of any means for adding virtual desktops other than editing gconf values by hand." Rahul

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[In the news] Praise for Fedora 15 and KDE 4.6.x - A great experience!

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/07/praise-for-fedora-15-and-kde-46... "Some old time Fedora users may be aware of Fedora's poor track record when it comes to KDE although things have been changing ever since the release of KDE 4.x. I regularly try Fedora KDE and so far haven't been fully convinced with the experience until now. As a fan of both Fedora and KDE it gives me pleasure to say Fedora 15 with KDE 4.6.x is a great experience!" Rahul

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[In the news] Living with Fedora – A Debian/Ubuntu User’s Take on Fedora 15

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://maketecheasier.com/living-with-fedora-15/2011/07/21 "If I was to sum up my opinion on Fedora 15 in one sentence, it’d have to be “Rough, but with great potential“. Gnome 3 is still a baby, and Fedora took a bold step by pushing it to the forefront, and I applaud them for that. As cozy as it may be, there’s still a whole lot of polish left to be done. The front-end is still rough, and the back-end doesn’t seem to have yet caught up with all the changes. If Fedora can manage to take the successes in this release (which are many) and smooth out some of those rough spots (which are also many), then Fedora 16 is likely to pull a lot of users away from Ubuntu permanently. From the looks of it, I’ll be one of them." Rahul

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[In the news] Linux at 20, some personal memories

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi http://liw.fi/linux20/ "By this time, summer of 1991, we had both started posting to Usenet. In August, Linus mentioned his kernel project on comp.os.minix for the first time. Later on, he decided to make the code available, and got one of the admins of ftp.funet.fi to put it there. For this, the project needed a name. Linus wanted to call it Freax, but Ari Lemmke, the ftp.funet.fi admin, decided to call it Linux instead. You can find the Freax name in the Makefile of the earliest Linux releases." Rahul

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[MOVED TO DISCOURSE] Fedora Marketing - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/marketing August 2011