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[[User: | [[User:Sundaram| Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012410.html</ref> a link and some analysis of the following article posted to The Register on 4/13/2010, which begins: | ||
"Review Number 13 is indeed an unlucky number for the next release of Fedora. Unfortunately for this popular distro, its beta arrives at almost the same time as the next release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx. | "Review Number 13 is indeed an unlucky number for the next release of Fedora. Unfortunately for this popular distro, its beta arrives at almost the same time as the next release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx. | ||
Revision as of 02:18, 14 April 2010
Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
The Joy of Betas: Fedora 13 Beta Released Today (OStatic)
Kara Schlitz forwarded[2] a 4/13/10 article from OStatic by Joe Brockmeyer:
"Beta" may not be my favorite word in the English language, but it's in the top 100. To some folks, beta may mean "not quite ready for prime time," but to me it means it's time to start enjoying a slew of new features. This is especially true with the Fedora 13 beta[3] released today."
The full article is available[4]
Fedora tempts fate with Apollo 13 (The Register; UK)
Adam Williamson posted[1] a link to an article from the Register from 4/13/10, which begins:
"If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number, why tempt the Fates and launch the beta of a thirteenth version of a product on the thirteenth of the month - and on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, which damned near killed its three astronauts? And particularly when you have code-named that release "Goddard," after the American father of modern rocketry?
Well, you launch the first beta of Fedora 13 on a day like today precisely because of the triumph of intellect over superstition and - in the case of Apollo 13 and hopefully all open source software - of good engineering over bad."
The full article is available[2]
Fedora 13 beta released with many goodies for the enterprise (NetworkWorld)
Rahul Sundarham forwarded[1] a posting on Network World from 4/13/2010, which includes the comments:
"The popular Linux distribution, Fedora 13, has been released to its final beta and is chock full of features for enterprise use. . . . [T]he contributors to Fedora have built in many a feature to please the enterprise user who prefers a FOSS distro over a commercial one."
The full article is available[1]
Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin (The Register; UK)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[2] a link and some analysis of the following article posted to The Register on 4/13/2010, which begins:
"Review Number 13 is indeed an unlucky number for the next release of Fedora. Unfortunately for this popular distro, its beta arrives at almost the same time as the next release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx.
The Fedora 13 beta could get eclipsed by Ubuntu 10.04, later this month, because it lacks some of the flashy new features found in Canonical's distro that target the Linux novice and crosses into the world of mainstream consumers more than ever."
Rahul noted a couple areas for Marketing and others to think and act on:
"Perspective: We need to advertise the end user facing features moreloudly. Ubuntu includes gwibber and a applet and advertises it as social networking built-in. We do have similar features: Pino is default for Fedora 13. If we can get the one page release notes effort pushed forward, it would help.
Factual corrections: Feel free to post them to the site. I don't have a account there yet. mesa-dri-drivers-experimental is not a separate driver. GNOME version is 2.30
Release notes: Does Anaconda create a separate /home only if the available space is more than 50 GB? Such details need to go into the release notes."
The full article is available[3]