Hi! I'm new here too, so let me introduce myself: I'm a 19 years old software developer based Ostrava, Czech Republic.
I'm also a member of OSS Alliance organisation (www.oss.cz) - OSS provides open-source support mainly for the Czech government. It's goal is to replace proprietary document formats such as MS Word with OpenDocument Format which has been approved as an ISO norm recently. Replacing few proprietary desktop apps with opensource ones is the first step to Linux.
There is also a Czech Wiki page about Fedora Core project: http://www.fedora.cz/
Besides that, I'm also project manager and lead developer of opensource PHP5.1 WEB 2.0 framework http://sourceforge.net/projects/elitecore
I have many ideas about Fedora and how to improve desktop, should I post it here too or somewhere to dev-mailing list? I use GNOME, but users probably likes KDE more, because it's easier to use. You can change everything in the Control Center and there's more eye-candy effects than in GNOME, you can also customize toolbars more in KDE. Fedora 5 has the biggest number of bugs, I've seen in Fedora. After the first boot, I had to disable HWCursor in xorg.conf, disable ACPI to not have any IRQ conflicts on NVIDIA based board (n-force chipset with net,sound and video) - It wasn't hard, but it took a week or so and I think that ordinary users doesn't even know what 'console' or 'terminal' means.
-- Regards, Luke Satin
Luke Satin wrote:
Hi! I'm new here too, so let me introduce myself: I'm a 19 years old software developer based Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Welcome.
I'm also a member of OSS Alliance organisation (www.oss.cz http://www.oss.cz) - OSS provides open-source support mainly for the Czech government. It's goal is to replace proprietary document formats such as MS Word with OpenDocument Format which has been approved as an ISO norm recently. Replacing few proprietary desktop apps with opensource ones is the first step to Linux.
There is also a Czech Wiki page about Fedora Core project: http://www.fedora.cz/
This one is listed in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityWebsites.
Besides that, I'm also project manager and lead developer of opensource PHP5.1 WEB 2.0 framework http://sourceforge.net/projects/elitecore
Doesnt seem to be in Fedora. Might submit it in Fedora Extras. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras for detailed guidelines on this.
I have many ideas about Fedora and how to improve desktop, should I post it here too or somewhere to dev-mailing list?
If there are straight forward enhancement requests, file them against the appropriate components in http://bugzilla.redhat.com. If they are general developer ideas that require more discussion, post to fedora-devel list.
I use GNOME, but users probably likes KDE more, because it's easier to use. You can change everything in the Control Center and there's more eye-candy effects than in GNOME, you can also customize toolbars more in KDE.
We offer these and many more. So users have a choice.
Fedora 5 has the biggest number of bugs, I've seen in Fedora. After the first boot, I had to disable HWCursor in xorg.conf, disable ACPI to not have any IRQ conflicts on NVIDIA based board (n-force chipset with net,sound and video) - It wasn't hard, but it took a week or so and I think that ordinary users doesn't even know what 'console' or 'terminal' means.
Thats quite contrary to the usual feedback we have seen. For example, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-June/msg00006.html.
I myself have been using Fedora Core 5 for all my work exclusively. (Typing this in a FC5 system) and the release in my personal experience has been the best so far. Do others here have widely different ideas about this release?
Unfortunate that you have been running into bugs. Have you filed them in http://bugzilla.redhat.com?
Rahul
Luke Satin wrote:
Hi! I'm new here too, so let me introduce myself: I'm a 19 years old software developer based Ostrava, Czech Republic.
I'm also a member of OSS Alliance organisation (www.oss.cz http://www.oss.cz) - OSS provides open-source support mainly for the Czech government. It's goal is to replace proprietary document formats such as MS Word with OpenDocument Format which has been approved as an ISO norm recently. Replacing few proprietary desktop apps with opensource ones is the first step to Linux.
Oh, forgot to add this. Getting open formats such as Open Document as a standard in government agencies has far reaching implications much more that merely a Windows to Linux transition. The assurance that data generated through tax payer's money is always stored in a format that is available for the public, easily retrieved decades from now and easily indexed etc is extremely critical for common welfare.
Red Hat has a few notes on this subject
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/video_szulik/ http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1819239,00.asp
I believe more is on the pipeline. One of the recent interesting changes is the move to supply a web browser extension for the ODF format.
Rahul
"I believe more is on the pipeline. One of the recent interesting changes is the move to supply a web browser extension for the ODF format."
Yes - that would be good if a browser could read ODF as Firefox can read PDF. I did also a PHP5 extension that converts ODT to XHTML+CSS, so it can be used in content managemen systems, on the blogs, etc. It's not 100% done yet, but it works well, I'll contribute it to OpenOffice.org soon. -- Regards, Luke Satin
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