Fedora Struggles to Come into Its Own

Raveesh raveeshnagpal at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 05:40:04 UTC 2007


I think that this is the revolution that we were waiting for?

On 6/7/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc at mwiriadi.id.au> wrote:
>
> 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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