[Fedora-marketing-list] FC6 Reviews

[michael at phoronix.com]

An Ubuntu developer has posted a mini-review/rants about Fedora Core 6:
http://mindwarp.net/?p=30 (seen it on Planet Ubuntu)



Regards,
Michael Larabel


> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 18:14 +0100, Thomas Canniot wrote:
>> http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/57
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.brad-x.com/?p=49
>>
>> Some criticisms are not very pleasant to read ...
>>
> Ouch that first one seems really bad.  I'm not sure but most of his
> gripes were about propietary software.
>
> There was only 2 things that he regarded which were core to fedora.  One
> being I think system-config-network which I personally like.
>
> Also Adding software repositories.  That was a first crack at it in
> fedora core 6 I thought?  It worked well with extras since I used it
> myself.  I think he tried to add a non core repository.
>
> I'm not sure what he means though that we look like ubuntu.  I
> personally don't think we do at all.
>
> Some of the criticisms are justified but not at fedora.  The other
> repositories should talk to each other more to have a one package policy
> of some sort that goes against the grain of open source though.
>
> Just my thoughts regarding it.
> To solve it?
> I'm not sure.
> I'm not technically minded.
>>From a marketing perspective I would say maybe more information on
> getting those specific cards, drivers working?
> I don't have a wireless card so I can't even comment.
> I have no issues with the other problems he listed.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Marc
>
>
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