Fedora Struggles to Come into Its Own

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 6 23:48:44 UTC 2007


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?




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