ChitleshGoorah/FAQ

This is a draft.

The following questions are frequently asked during linux events:

here is hopefully more information that might be useful on future occasions, taken from the different Official Fedora mailing lists.


 * How Fedora can be useful to disabled persons(eyes)? (thanks KDE for being useful here)

KDE and GNOME are settling down on AT-SPI based libraries and there is potentially increase cross pollination between applications build on them. It makes sense to highlight that.


 * Why Fedora Core (FC4 and FC5) default kernels have issues ? How about the testing behind it ?

FC5 GA kernel definitely shows that core developers in Fedora do not test it actively against non-free software. Others could potentially do that.


 * Can I have a livecd of Fedora ?

Hopefully a formal release by FC6.


 * Why do my firefox have so much language packs as extensions which most of the time I don't need ?

Its a transient issue. We need to figure out a better way to do this.


 * Fedora is known to be providing ONLY gpl'ed packages why do aiglx and Fedora directory server respectively require proprietary drivers and Sun Java ?

AIGLX doesnt necessarily depend on any proprietary driver. Intel i810 works fine for example. Fedora directory server is a large piece of formerly proprietary product that is still being "freed". With Red Hat's long standing investments in GCJ it is one of the priorities. I am hoping that Fedora directory server is less of a silo in the future than it is currently.


 * In Fedora /sbin is not in the PATH for _su_ example ifconfig but as su -, /sbin is in the PATH? other distros like Mandriva and Suse it is not the case. Why?