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=== The Joy of Betas: Fedora 13 Beta Released Today (OStatic) ===
=== A Music Lover's Fedora Linux Workstation ===


Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012403.html</ref> a 4/13/10 article from OStatic by Joe Brockmeyer:
[[User:Sundaram| Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012626.html</ref> a posting about using Fedora as a musician's workstation:


"Beta" may not be my favorite word in the English language, but it's in
"We've got here our very first entry for "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest". It's from Mauricio, a Music Theory student. If he wins the contest, he says that he will be using the money to buy a USB mic for some serious music recording."
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<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/13/fedora-13-goddard-beta-blasts-off/</ref> released today."


The full article is available<ref>http://ostatic.com/blog/the-joy-of-betas-fedora-13-beta-released-today</ref>
The full post is available<ref>http://www.junauza.com/2010/04/music-lovers-fedora-linux-workstation.html
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=== Fedora tempts fate with Apollo 13 (The Register; UK) ===
=== Fedora 13 Beta: The Seen and (Troubling) Unseen (Datamation) ===


[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012404.html</ref> a link to an article from the Register from 4/13/10, which begins:
[[User:Jnalley|Jonathan Nalley]] posted<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012597.html</ref> a link to two articles, one from Datamation<ref>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/
</ref> and another related post from the same author from LinuxPlanet<ref>http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7046/1/</ref>.


"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?
Highlighting some of the new cloud storage options and other new features in Fedora 13, the author raises issues with the back-end commercial service options that two of these packages, Déjà Dup and Zarafa, can tie into. This prompted a discussion thread on the Fedora Marketing list, with several community members clarifying some of these issues from the Fedora Project's perspective, and also resulted in another post by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier in OStatic<ref>http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-shedding-indie-status-is-a-good-thing</ref> about linux commercialization and specifically referencing the Datamation post. Brockmeier's article concludes:


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."
"Linux is evolving and becoming more suitable for mainstream users. Commercialization means more opportunity to expose a wider audience to free and open source software. It also means more people will be paid to produce more free and open source software. If that's off-putting for a minority contingent that can't abide "commercialization," then there's always OpenBSD..."
 
The full article is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/fedora_13_beta/</ref>


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=== Fedora 13 beta released with many goodies for the enterprise (NetworkWorld) ===
=== Fedora taps Zarafa open source groupware for 13 (ZDNet) ===
 
[[User:Sundaram| Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012408.html</ref> 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."
 
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The full article is available<ref>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60057</ref>
 
=== Fedora 13 - Ubuntu's smart but less attractive cousin (The Register; UK) ===
 
[[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.
 
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:
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012554.html</ref> a posting from ZDNet from 4/19/2010, which includes:


"Perspective:  We need to advertise the end user facing features more loudly.  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.  
"Fedora’s selection of Zarafa as an open source groupware component in Fedora 13 is very interesting.


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
The beta of Fedora 13, code named “Goddard,” was made available on April 13. The final version is expected in mid May.


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."
Red Hat sponsors the open source Linux project and has toyed with the idea of integrating email and calendaring capabilities into its Linux stack from time to time. Novell, of course, promotes its own GroupWise but also endorses other open source offerings for its Linux distribution."


The full article is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/13/fedora_13_beta_review/</ref>
The full post is available<ref>http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6298</ref>


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Revision as of 13:53, 28 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

A Music Lover's Fedora Linux Workstation

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[2] a posting about using Fedora as a musician's workstation:

"We've got here our very first entry for "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest". It's from Mauricio, a Music Theory student. If he wins the contest, he says that he will be using the money to buy a USB mic for some serious music recording."

The full post is available[3]

Fedora 13 Beta: The Seen and (Troubling) Unseen (Datamation)

Jonathan Nalley posted[1] a link to two articles, one from Datamation[2] and another related post from the same author from LinuxPlanet[3].

Highlighting some of the new cloud storage options and other new features in Fedora 13, the author raises issues with the back-end commercial service options that two of these packages, Déjà Dup and Zarafa, can tie into. This prompted a discussion thread on the Fedora Marketing list, with several community members clarifying some of these issues from the Fedora Project's perspective, and also resulted in another post by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier in OStatic[4] about linux commercialization and specifically referencing the Datamation post. Brockmeier's article concludes:

"Linux is evolving and becoming more suitable for mainstream users. Commercialization means more opportunity to expose a wider audience to free and open source software. It also means more people will be paid to produce more free and open source software. If that's off-putting for a minority contingent that can't abide "commercialization," then there's always OpenBSD..."

Fedora taps Zarafa open source groupware for 13 (ZDNet)

Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a posting from ZDNet from 4/19/2010, which includes:

"Fedora’s selection of Zarafa as an open source groupware component in Fedora 13 is very interesting.

The beta of Fedora 13, code named “Goddard,” was made available on April 13. The final version is expected in mid May.

Red Hat sponsors the open source Linux project and has toyed with the idea of integrating email and calendaring capabilities into its Linux stack from time to time. Novell, of course, promotes its own GroupWise but also endorses other open source offerings for its Linux distribution."

The full post is available[2]