Fedora Struggles to Come into Its Own

Marc Wiriadisastra marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Thu Jun 7 00:15:24 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 05:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?
> 

Last I heard Max spoke to them at LinuxTag I read from his blog???
Confirm please.  That was as far as what I've read about it.

Cheers,

Marc




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