Fedora Struggles to Come into Its Own
Hi
This article is based on a interview with Max Spevack. One interesting
trend is that this article and to a mixed extend the earlier distrowatch
review posted talks about improvements while also painting a picture of
struggle in growth.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3680951
"Red Hat, Spevack suggests, has shifted from being "Fedora's sponsor"
to
being "Fedora's biggest customer," and Fedora from being a farm-team to
a community in its own right."
" One of these benefits is Revisor, an initiative of the new Fedora
Unity sub-project developed independently of the official processes.
Taking advantage of the new openness, Revisor is a wizard that guides
users step-by-step through the building of "re-spins" or customized
variations of Fedora."
"For the larger free software community, another benefit of Fedora's new
openness is Smolt, an opt-in hardware profiler that allows the project
to collect data about the equipment on which Fedora installs. Even
before the release of Fedora 7, Smolt has been ported to the openSUSE
distribution. Spevack anticipates the creation of a neutral website
where information gathered by Smolt is available for all distributions
that carry it."
Rahul
Ps: I couldn't find any information on smolt integration with OpenSUSE.
Does anyone have details?