Re: [in the news] "Fedora 13 Beta: The Seen and (Troubling) Unseen"

[Ricky Zhou]

On 2010-04-21 02:43:04 PM, Jonathan Nalley wrote:
>  http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/
>  
>  Also partially seen and re-titled here:
>  http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7046/1/ 
Some comments:

>  Tentative plans are already being made to phase out complete .ISO
>  downloads in favor of BFO. 
I'd check with Mike McGrath about this, but I have
heard of no such
plans.

>  ... but Fedora is doing users a disservice by not specifying
>  immediately that the app is backing up files to Amazon S3.  
*snip*
>  However, if Fedora 13 is remembered for anything, it may be for the
>  same reason that its rival, Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx is remembered -- as
>  the release in which commercialization became embedded in the free
>  desktop.  
This is really starting to twist things.  Déjà Dup is nothing more than
a graphical frontend to Duplicity which happens to have a menu option
supporting Amazon S3 (along with options for backing up over SSH or to
another local directory).  Duplicity supports S3 itself, and has been in
Fedora for a while now.

Zarafa, on the other hand, is just some open source groupware software
that happens to be developed by a company.

Does anybody with some time want to do some extra research into some of
this and send a comment to the author?

Thanks,
Ricky