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FOSDEM 08 FEDORA SPEAKERS
by Frederic Hornain 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Dear *, The Fedora speakers recruitment for FOSDEM 08 started few weeks ago and I still not have any candidate from Fedora/Red Hat community -except Pawel for a presentation of Fedora - So, in order to be fair and nice with our friend of CentOs and FOSDEM visitors, I would need proposals from you. If you can spread the words... You can register at the Fedora FOSDEM 08 wiki page. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2008 In addition, I have received a speaker proposition from someone outside of .Fedora community. For my part, I think it is not a bad idea to let one session from outside in oder to have other Fedora experiences returns What do you think about that ? Best Regards Frederic Hornain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FredericHornain

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Multiple distro reviews
by Valent Turkovic 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

In this multiple disto review: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20071203#review Fedora got second worst score, I can't imagine why but still I wanted to share the link. Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Fedora 8: An Assault On Ubuntu
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi, Looks like a precursor to an actual review. Looking forward to that. Highlighted features include pulseaudio, codeina and specifically the codecbuddy wiki page and the approach to spins. http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=8094 "With the upcoming release of Fedora 8 (at the time of press time), I see solid indications that Fedora could dethrown Ubuntu with its latest release. I especially like what I'm reading about their work on issues, such as notebook suspend/resume working, power consumption and perhaps most of all, PulseAudio" Slashdot: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/12/29/2216249.shtml Digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_An_Assault_On_Ubuntu Rahul

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Hands-on with the OLPC XO laptop -- and loving it
by Rahul Sundaram 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hi And we are... http://www.linux.com/feature/123730 "The good news is that the OLPC team has worked, and is working, magic. From dream to vision to reality in just a few short years, in spite of Microsoft's taunting, in spite of cut-throat competition on the hardware side from Intel and others, Negroponte and his team have succeeded in bringing the XO to fruition. Best of all, because the software side of the XO equation is free/open source software, it will only improve over time. Unofficially, the number of XOs in North America is now at 20,000 and climbing. More developers means more activities. Everyone involved with OLPC, from Negroponte to Red Hat to the students helping out on IRC, should be proud of what they've done and what they're doing." Rahul

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Fedora more successful, developer-wise, than Ubuntu
by Marc Wiriadisastra 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Interesting post about whether Fedora is more popular for dev's than Ubuntu. http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/12/18/fedora-more-successful-deve… I personally don't think it's a fair comparison because Ubuntu is derived from Debian and there is cross over. What I would like to see is a comparison with Debian and Fedora to see what the actual numbers are. Cheers, Marc

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OneLaptop-OneVillage
by Rahul Sundaram 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi Very inspiring stories in there. Check it out. http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/chi-la… "Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. These offspring of peasant families whose monthly earnings rarely exceed the cost of one of the $188 laptops — people who can ill afford pencil and paper much less books — can't get enough of their "XO" laptops." Rahul

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Re: Fedora and lack of audio communication with the community
by Paul W. Frields 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Bringing this over from f-devel-l, where it shouldn't have been... On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 09:45 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > Podcasts are useless to the deaf and Hard of Hearing. If you want to put > > a podcast up, fine. if you don't have a transcript of it you're > > excluding that portion of the population, entirely. There is currently > > software to read text in a voice for the blind, we have nothing to > > convert speech to text. > > > > that's why we shouldn't do podcasts. > > Are you against radio as well? Some podcasts are just recordings of > radio sessions that were broadcast live. And most of the technical ones > are just people talking about things that are available in print anyway. Volunteers can and should do constructive things that make them happy; doing a podcast would be a lot better if it included a transcript. I used to do a podcast of Fedora Weekly News, which I assume is acceptable by Seth's standards because it was an audio reading of the already written news. I'd be very hesitant to put a Fedora Project stamp on any podcast that didn't similarly try to cover as many bases as possible. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Fedora and lack of audio communication with the community
by Valent Turkovic 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi, first excuse me if this is the wrong mailing list. If there is better mailing list please point me in the right direction. Fedora has a really strong emphasize on communication and openness, and that is true in most part from the open communication on mailing lists and irc channels. AFAIK there is no fedora podcast, there was one unofficial but it died and it produced only a few (great) shows. I also rarely see and fedora exposure in other podcasts; there are fedora reviews and usually podcast hosts do a interview with Max Spevack once or twice a year and that is it. Why? There are lots of great fedora community members, fedora devels and redhat people that would make great guests on lots of podcasts... I believe they should approach podcast hosts with some interesting Fedora related project, new feature or any other interesting topic and go from there... It would be even better if Fedora had an official podcast, or even better a few official and few unofficial :) I listen to few of the most interesting linux podcasts and one think that made me write this post was the Fedora 8 review and KDE4 review by Chris and Bryan form Linux Action Show podcast. They made a great show and reviewed Fedora 8 and gave their comments what they see as bad and good in Fedora 8 (LAS episode 67). They also said that KDE4 RC1 basically sucks or it should be still called beta not RC1. In the latest episode 68 Aaron Seigo from the KDE project got on as s guest to explain what is going on with the KDE 4.0 and that was a really revealing episode and really informative on multiple levels. This could be their best show to date. It would be great if somebody from Fedora agreed to do an interview for Linux Action Show regarding issues they have with Fedora 8. That would be a GREAT thing for us users and fans of Fedora... Thank you, Valent from Croatia. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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links for 2007-12-06 » Fedora 8: Close, But No Cigar
by Valent Turkovic 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi Fedora 8: Close, But No Cigar http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/04/fedora-8-close-but-no-cigar/ "Fedora had a chance - a real chance - to unseat Ubuntu last week. Not for my primary machine, the Thinkpad, but for the Ultra 20 workstation. Given these frustrations, and having killed more hours than I'd alloted on all of the above, I decided at that point to cut bait. Fedora 8 was blown away in favor of Ubuntu and VMWare, the latter of which installed both Gutsy and Windows Server 2008 relatively seamlessly (Vista probably would have loaded but my tester's copy has a bad license key for it and thus I couldn't proceed). So Fedora's virtualization is terrible, then, right? And VMWare is the future? A chain of thought that I would not necessarily have arrived at without my Fedora experiment; proof that we can learn even from our failures. Fedora may not have poached me as a user yet, but I'll be sure to try it again in a few months. Who knows what I'll learn from that experience." -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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Here Comes Fedora 8
by Rahul Sundaram 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi http://lampcomputing.com/node/49 "Fedora 8 comes with GIMP 2.4, OpenOffice.org 2.3 and host of latest versions of free and open source software programs. Fedora also boasts of improvements in the Add/Remove Programs tool, pirut, Pup and yum. You can now add repositories from the graphical interface. Fedora also includes several different spins. Spin is a combination of packages. You can either download a spin from Fedora website or roll your own using Pungi, LiveCD Creator, or Revisor. All in all, Fedora is a fantastic GNU/Linux distribution." Rahul

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