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=== Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement) ===
=== Fedora 14 alpha gets ROOT (InternetNews.com) ===


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013332.html</ref> coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor project to streamline and solve the problems associated with contributor agreements, with participation by Red Hat Inc.:
Kara Schiltz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013371.html</ref> a brief post on Fedora 14 from InternetNews.com


"In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious.
"The first alpha of Red Hat's Fedora 14 Linux is now avail, and it sure has a very long list of new features.  There are improvements to  security, performance and virtualization as well as some interesting new analysis technology."


"It also signals a lack of confidence in free software licenses that regular open source licenses aren't good enough," he said.
The full post is available<ref>http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/08/fedora-14-alpha-gets-root.html</ref>.
 
Fontana added that he is participating in Project Harmony, though he has mixed feeling about the effort."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3898411/Project-Harmony-Takes-Aim-at-Open-Source-Contribution-Agreements.htm</ref>.


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=== LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet) ===
=== First pre-release version of Fedora 14 (The H) ===
 
Kara Schiltz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013370.html</ref> an article discussing innovations in Fedora 14 alpha:
[[User:jnalley|Jonathan Nalley]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013327.html</ref> an article on the future of the Linux kernel, with interviews of attendees at LinuxCon, including Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones:
 
"When we ship Fedora updates the story is more of the same, more drivers and fixes to existing drivers," said Dave Jones, Red Hat's Fedora kernel maintainer. "There are some great features in every release, but it's mostly more of the same from our perspective."
 
Overall the increasing level of complexity and quality is also making it more difficult for new people to contribute to the kernel. Jones believes that the barrier to entry for kernel developers has been raised in recent years.
 
"A driver that would have been merged in the early days would now get shot down, with request for re-writes," he said.
 
Jones noted that there are certain areas where new kernel developers can make more of an impact than others.
 
"The kernel is big enough and there are whole areas are that are prime areas for people to come and clean up," Jones said.
 
That said, Jones suggested that new developers not choose to start with what he referred to as janitor patches that help to eliminate needless whitespace.


"Find something that is interesting and useful but at the same time easy enough to understand so you can get involved with it," Jones said."
"The Fedora Project has released the first and only alpha version of its Fedora 14 Linux distribution, code named "Laughlin". . .  The most profound change is a behind the scenes
switch to systemd<ref>http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd</ref>, an
alternative to sysvinit and upstart released in May. Lately Fedora has been using upstart to launch the system and services, but has continued to use sysvinit scripts. The current state of systemd development and background information on the state of integration into Fedora is summarised by Lennart Poettering, the main developer behind systemd, in a post on his blog <ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update.html</ref>. In discussions
on systemd on LWN-net, he has stated<ref>http://lwn.net/Articles/401441/</ref> that faster booting is just one of many objectives for systemd – some systems boot significantly faster with systemd, whereas others see little difference."


The full post is also available<ref>http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7151/1/</ref>.
The full post is also available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-pre-release-version-of-Fedora-14-1064587.html</ref>.


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Revision as of 20:08, 24 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/

Fedora 14 alpha gets ROOT (InternetNews.com)

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] a brief post on Fedora 14 from InternetNews.com

"The first alpha of Red Hat's Fedora 14 Linux is now avail, and it sure has a very long list of new features. There are improvements to security, performance and virtualization as well as some interesting new analysis technology."

The full post is available[2].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013371.html
  2. ↑ http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/08/fedora-14-alpha-gets-root.html

First pre-release version of Fedora 14 (The H)

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] an article discussing innovations in Fedora 14 alpha:

"The Fedora Project has released the first and only alpha version of its Fedora 14 Linux distribution, code named "Laughlin". . . The most profound change is a behind the scenes switch to systemd[2], an alternative to sysvinit and upstart released in May. Lately Fedora has been using upstart to launch the system and services, but has continued to use sysvinit scripts. The current state of systemd development and background information on the state of integration into Fedora is summarised by Lennart Poettering, the main developer behind systemd, in a post on his blog [3]. In discussions on systemd on LWN-net, he has stated[4] that faster booting is just one of many objectives for systemd – some systems boot significantly faster with systemd, whereas others see little difference."

The full post is also available[5].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013370.html
  2. ↑ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
  3. ↑ http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update.html
  4. ↑ http://lwn.net/Articles/401441/
  5. ↑ http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-pre-release-version-of-Fedora-14-1064587.html
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