Re: [Ambassadors] Sitting with Ubuntu for a Workshop
Danishka Navin wrote:
Hi Guys,
Sri Lanka Linux community will be orgnizing workshop for Maldivian
students association as per their request.
I'm planning to show up the Fedora 9 New features and l10n as well.
As most of our members prefer Ubuntu, I don't want to criticizes other
bistros, but want to show the true advantages over F9.
Date is yet to be fixd, so planning to introduce Fedora Live USB Self
Service PC. ;-)
Appreciate your points, suggestions and previous experience.
A generic intro:
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You can reuse and modify as necessary the intro presentation from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture/Presentations
Fedora is fully committed to Free and open source software and staying
close to upstream as much as possible.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
Fedora drives a lot of the upstream work shared by other distributions.
Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions
Security is a key focus area
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features
Virtualization is another. Refer to virt-manager, libvirt etc.
A open build system, koji, a unified repository along with
livecd-creator, pungi and revisors supports custom variants of Fedora
that are called Fedora spins very easily. Rebranding is supported via
the generic-logos package. We have a easy way to support persistence and
creating a bootable USB key is trivial. There are a large number of such
spins - desktop (gnome), KDE, Xfce live images, Electronics Lab, games
and several upcoming ones.
https://fedorahosted.org/transifex is a web service (completely Free
software) that understands different source code management systems and
presents a unified easy to use web interface and works towards
committing changes upstream and then inheriting those changes in Fedora.
Fedora is well known for presenting a great look and feel including a
fresh new default theme every release.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Fedora in a continuation of Red Hat Linux released first in November 3
1994. It is also the upstream for more than a hundred derivatives
including significant ones such as OLPC and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions
A common misconception
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This is a common misconception that you might want to clarify upfront:
RPM format ~= DEB format
RPM tool ~= dpkg
Yum, apt-rpm, smart ~= apt
RPM is not comparable to apt-get. It is comparable to dpkg. In fact,
both RPM and Apt-RPM upstreams are maintained by the same Fedora/Red Hat
developer. We have yum, apt-rpm(synaptic) and smart available in the
Fedora repository and they all support the same repomd metadata format.
RPM supports many additional things including multi-lib (the ability to
install both 32-bit and 64-bit libs in parallel), file based
dependencies (though we don't use it much), triggers (which recently has
been in the dpkg fork in Ubuntu but not in Debian) and others.
We choose yum over apt-rpm as the default because it was a good
replacement for up2date using the same language (python), ease of
development and also because apt-rpm upstream was dead as the time we
had to chose and didn't support features like multi-lib that was crucial
to us. For performance improvements, demonstrate the speed in Fedora 9.
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Fedora 9 specific
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http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/5-reasons-why-youll-love-fedora-9/
is a pretty good intro. I would also definitely highlight FreeIPA better.
Closing
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Fedora and Ubuntu share a lot of the same software due to Fedora's free
software and upstream friendly policy. In particular, Ubuntu has
inherited system-config-printer, virt-manager, PulseAudio etc from us
and we have recently inherited Upstart from Ubuntu. We have constantly
learn from each other and while many of the contributors understand this
very well, users still need to.
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Hope that helps.
Rahul