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Continuing from the recent announcement of new Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, this past week saw one more story in the trade press on this. from PC World.
=== Contributions to GNOME Desktop Project (Red Hat) ===


=== Fedora 13: what you need to know (techradar.com/Linux Format) ===
[[User:wonderer|Henrik Heigl]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013300.html</ref> a Red Hat press release regarding the Fedora Project's contributions to the GNOME Project:


Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013266.html</ref> a repost from Linux Format about Fedora 13, from the blog techradar.com:
"The GNOME project, governed by the GNOME Foundation, was founded over
13 years ago with the goal of creating a free software desktop user
environment for UNIX-type operating systems. Today, the project
constitutes a large body of source code that is used by the free, Red
Hat-sponsored Fedora distribution and the commercially supplied Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, as well as other Linux distributions and platforms. "


"Corporate backing and a large supportive community – almost all Linux distributions can boast of at least one half of that.
The full post is available<ref>http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/gnome-desktop-project.html</ref>.
 
Fedora, since its inception in late 2003 as Red Hat's community distribution, has nurtured around itself a devoted community. It has
achieved this after providing, release after release, an innovative and
complete distribution that demands attention and respect.
 
Being a rather large distribution (the number of DVD distributions now
pales in comparison to single CD variants), Fedora 13 has something for
just about every variety of Linux user."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/fedora-13-what-you-need-to-know-705989</ref>.


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===Fedora vs Ubuntu (MyBroadband - South Africa) ===
===FISL 11: new project leader says that Fedora is the solution (TerraTV - Brazil) ===


Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013253.html</ref> a posting comparing Fedora and Ubuntu project approaches to creating linux distributions:
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013269.html</ref> and Daniel Bruno translated<ref>http://dbruno.fedorapeople.org/docs/fedora_article_fislbr.txt</ref> a posting about Fedora Project leader Jared Smith's comments during his attendance at the Brazilian FISL 11 event:


"The difference between Ubuntu and Fedora lies primarily in their
"Consider a system that is free and aggregate values such as reliability, soundness, innovation and lightness. What would be the answer? For the new world leader of the Fedora project, Jared Smith, the project he heads is the solution.
approaches to the end product they produce. Ubuntu's approach is to
produce an easy-to-use desktop alternative to Windows. While not a
Windows clone it is designed to be used by anyone keen to leave Windows
behind. And in this it is remarkably successful.


Fedora, on the other hand, strives to make a desktop operating system
Fedora is an operating system that works from Linux with the latest technology open source and free software. For Smith, it's more than that. "Imagine a place where you can get everything for free and safe: the tools to build your online life. In simple words and objective, that is the Fedora defined."
that offers the best that the world of free and open source software has
at the time. It routinely includes software that many other
distributions consider too experimental to use and yet, somehow, manages
to team that with stability."


The full post is available<ref>http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/13806-Fedora-Ubuntu.html</ref>.
Talk about "technology that liberates" in a country that do not have access and tools well-distributed, as in the USA, for example, could be an obstacle to the project that engages in global scale. For Smith, however, this is a challenge. "There exists a big diference, of course, that influences the strategies of the project here, in Chile, in Russia. Fedora understands local specificities, behaviors, culture, language and works in each society differently and personalized", he explained in an interview for Terra during the FISL 11.


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The initiative consists of many people around the world and anyone is welcome to use, modify and distribute Fedora. In Brazil, users can access the site<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/pt</ref>. As Smith says, Fedora doesn't work with the means to reach a final. He is the most advanced stage and users need to perform their active role in this game.


===My Linux: Fedora 13 for Software Developers (University of Auckland New Zealand Linux User Group) ===
Another use of Fedora growing and increasingly consolidated is on the academic world. "There are dozens of universities, including Brazil, using our project because it's more stable, is lighter and hasn't reason to worry about bugs. This, moreover, is the diference of Fedora in the world."


Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013252.html</ref> a posting from a New Zealand LUG about Fedora 13, from the perspective of an engineer:
For Smith, the importance of the events like FISL is central. The reflection on the collaborative process of the user in the building of a digital world that actually belongs to all is the reason for it's existence. "Events like FISL become relevant the extent that they incite discussion and make people think that absolutely everything they pay to have on the internet, they can get for free", Smith said.


"This is (hopefully) the first in a series of posts in which members of
The FISL 11 was held in Porto Alegre on PUCRS events centre, until this past Saturday. Terra TV broadcasts lectures live daily from 9am to 9pm. All videos of the FISL can be accessed<ref>http://terratv.terra.com.br/videos/Noticias/Especiais/4882/FISL.htm</ref>."
the LUG will detail their personal Linux set-ups and what they use them
for. I’m going to start out by detailing my set-up which is based on
Fedora 13. As a Computer Systems Engineer use my system(s) largely for
developing software, both for desktop platforms and embedded systems.
Therefore this article isn’t really for those new to computers, but it
should be of use to those who are tech-savvy on other platforms. I’ll
start by giving a quick overview of how I came to be a Fedora user, give
a description of Fedora as a distribution and then give an overview of
my system."


The full post is available<ref>https://ualug.ece.auckland.ac.nz/archives/246</ref>.
The original post in Brazilian Portuguese is available<ref>http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/noticias/0,,OI4582605-EI16771,00-Fisl+novo+lider+do+projeto+diz+que+Fedora+e+a+solucao.html</ref>.  Further information about FISL in English is also available<ref>http://softwarelivre.org/fisl11/english/about-the-event</ref>.


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Revision as of 18:02, 4 August 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

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/

Contributions to GNOME Desktop Project (Red Hat)

Henrik Heigl forwarded[1] a Red Hat press release regarding the Fedora Project's contributions to the GNOME Project:

"The GNOME project, governed by the GNOME Foundation, was founded over 13 years ago with the goal of creating a free software desktop user environment for UNIX-type operating systems. Today, the project constitutes a large body of source code that is used by the free, Red Hat-sponsored Fedora distribution and the commercially supplied Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as other Linux distributions and platforms. "

The full post is available[2].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013300.html
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/gnome-desktop-project.html

FISL 11: new project leader says that Fedora is the solution (TerraTV - Brazil)

Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] and Daniel Bruno translated[2] a posting about Fedora Project leader Jared Smith's comments during his attendance at the Brazilian FISL 11 event:

"Consider a system that is free and aggregate values such as reliability, soundness, innovation and lightness. What would be the answer? For the new world leader of the Fedora project, Jared Smith, the project he heads is the solution.

Fedora is an operating system that works from Linux with the latest technology open source and free software. For Smith, it's more than that. "Imagine a place where you can get everything for free and safe: the tools to build your online life. In simple words and objective, that is the Fedora defined."

Talk about "technology that liberates" in a country that do not have access and tools well-distributed, as in the USA, for example, could be an obstacle to the project that engages in global scale. For Smith, however, this is a challenge. "There exists a big diference, of course, that influences the strategies of the project here, in Chile, in Russia. Fedora understands local specificities, behaviors, culture, language and works in each society differently and personalized", he explained in an interview for Terra during the FISL 11.

The initiative consists of many people around the world and anyone is welcome to use, modify and distribute Fedora. In Brazil, users can access the site[3]. As Smith says, Fedora doesn't work with the means to reach a final. He is the most advanced stage and users need to perform their active role in this game.

Another use of Fedora growing and increasingly consolidated is on the academic world. "There are dozens of universities, including Brazil, using our project because it's more stable, is lighter and hasn't reason to worry about bugs. This, moreover, is the diference of Fedora in the world."

For Smith, the importance of the events like FISL is central. The reflection on the collaborative process of the user in the building of a digital world that actually belongs to all is the reason for it's existence. "Events like FISL become relevant the extent that they incite discussion and make people think that absolutely everything they pay to have on the internet, they can get for free", Smith said.

The FISL 11 was held in Porto Alegre on PUCRS events centre, until this past Saturday. Terra TV broadcasts lectures live daily from 9am to 9pm. All videos of the FISL can be accessed[4]."

The original post in Brazilian Portuguese is available[5]. Further information about FISL in English is also available[6].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-July/013269.html
  2. ↑ http://dbruno.fedorapeople.org/docs/fedora_article_fislbr.txt
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/pt
  4. ↑ http://terratv.terra.com.br/videos/Noticias/Especiais/4882/FISL.htm
  5. ↑ http://tecnologia.terra.com.br/noticias/0,,OI4582605-EI16771,00-Fisl+novo+lider+do+projeto+diz+que+Fedora+e+a+solucao.html
  6. ↑ http://softwarelivre.org/fisl11/english/about-the-event
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