2008/5/2 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>:
Jonathan Roberts wrote:
[Quick notes]
that Fedora drives, this has had significant and
> long lasting effects. Some of the recent developments in free and open
> source software that Fedora has driven include:
>
> * NetworkManager
> * D-Bus
> * OpenJDK
> * FreeIPA
> * SELinux
> * PulseAudio
>
We can't take much credit for OpenJDK. Sure Fedora has done IcedTea and to
be in distributions like Fedora out of the box was one of Sun's goals in
open sourcing it but 95% of the work has been done outside of Fedora. If you
want to pick a desktop components, there are several others like HAL,
PolicyKit, PackageKit etc you can highlight.
OK - good point! It was a arbitrary list so we can definitely revise this :)
> The reverse is also true: by sticking close to upstream development
> teams, Fedora gets the latest software before anybody else.
>
Not always but usually.
I'll be sure to revise my phrasing here...
. Some official versions of Fedora have grown up this
> way, including:
>
> * Fedora XFCE Spin
> * Fedora Electronics Lab
> * Fedora Developers Spin
> * Fedora Games Spin
> * Fedora Hindi Spin
>
It is now officially refered to as "Xfce" and not "XFCE" since the
historic
acronym (Xforms) does not even apply anymore. Skip the last one and move
electronics lab as first.
Oh, I quite liked the idea of showing that people are taking Fedora
and making it local to themselves?
> * Fedora Hosted is the perfect location for hosting your project
>
... your free and open source projects. I wouldn't mind retaining most of
the references from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
Agreed, it would definitely be useful to work in most of those links :)
I'll wait until there's some more feedback and then take a crack at
revising it with suggestions in mind.
Thanks Rahul,
Jon