[Ambassadors] Sitting with Ubuntu for a Workshop

[jose manimala]

its not a something important but you can show off compiz fusion in
fedora... it always pulls in a crowd

On 4/19/08, Danishka Navin <danishka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks buddy...
>
>
>  On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram <
> sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> >  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:
> > ----------------
> > 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
> > ----------------------
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Fedora 9 specific
> > -----------------
> >
> >
> > 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
> > -------
> >
> > 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.
> > ----
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
>
> yeah, why NOT :D
> what quick & good reply
> Waiting for more stuff from other Fedora geeks :)
>
>
> >
> > Rahul
> >
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> >
>
>
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