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=== Unity Desktop Possibly Coming to Fedora (Phoronix) ===  
=== Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks (Infoworld) ===  


Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013620.html</ref> a posting on the Unity Desktop possibly coming to Fedora:
Heherson Pagcaliwagan forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013636.html</ref> a posting on the Unity Desktop possibly coming to Fedora:


"Adam Williamson has shared that he's looking at packaging Canonical's Unity desktop for Fedora. "Why? Well, a few reasons. Mainly, Unity’s an interesting project. I want to look at it and compare it to GNOME Shell and I think quite a few others do too, so it seems nice to package it so you can run both on Fedora. I don’t really want to maintain an Ubuntu install just to test Unity (can’t do it in a KVM VM as it requires compositing support). Also, though, I think it’ll do a bit to help keep everyone honest: if other projects show interest in providing Unity as an option for people to use, it increases the motivation for Unity's developers to make sure it can be easily built without non-upstreamed changes. Hopefully it also increases the motivation for upstream projects to work with the Unity developers to get their changes merged. It's the same for any project, really – if you have a wide base of users of a project across many distributions, it gives everyone involved a reason to work to make sure it's easy to maintain the project across distributions.
"Jackass IT stunt No. 1: Route city services through a laptop. Ever wonder whether you could route an entire city network through a laptop running Fedora? Take a seat. Or better yet, leave the chair for your laptop. You'll need to balance it somewhere to keep city services up and operational through a two-day snowstorm.


The full article is available<ref>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODg2OA</ref>.
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After a feverish half-hour configuring the switch and setting up 802.1q trunking and routing on a Dell Latitude running Fedora Linux, the city network was back up and running, with all traffic routing through a single interface on the laptop balanced on a chair in the data center."
 
The full article is available<ref>http://infoworld.com/print/145932</ref>.


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=== Fedora Moving to Unity Too! (Ostatic) ===
=== Linux Format magazine article - Ubuntu vs. Fedora: Which is best? (Tech Radar) ===
 
Robyn Bergeron forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013629.html</ref> a comparison of current Fedora and other linux distributions:
 
"The truth is that there is a distro for everyone. If you want some of the latest technologies, especially in terms of underlying system code, virtual machines and other of-themoment tech, Fedora is a good bet. If you want to have a friendlier desktop experience where your every whim is catered for, Ubuntu would be better for your needs.
 
And, while we're on the subject, if you want to run KDE, you are probably better off with OpenSUSE. There are certainly more than enough Linuxes to go around."
 
The full article is available<ref>http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubuntu-vs-fedora-which-is-best--907546?artc_pg=1</ref>
 
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=== IT Lure Distro Hoppin`: Fedora 14 (IT Lure) ===
 
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013628.html</ref> a recent review of Fedora 14:


Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-December/013620.html</ref> another posting regarding this:
"While some users may be turned off by the lack of easy-to-reach proprietary drivers/codecs and the barren default software selection, most will appreciate the true qualities of this distro:


"Despite all the negative reaction to Ubuntu's move to Unity, is it possible that another popular distribution is going to walk in its footsteps? Do they want to experience the backlash and exodus of users? Do they want to be subjected to a barrage of criticism? Well, no, not really. But Adam Williamson is working on making some Fedora packages for those that might want to test and run it.
*  its focus on developing the community and trying to keep everyone active and contributing in some way or another;
* giving users access to the latest and greatest apps in the open source world;
its commitment to freedom.


In a blog post today Williamson announced that he's going to give it the ole college try. But according to him, it's going to be quite the undertaking. He said, "I'm just started at the bottom of the dependency pile and seeing how far I can get. So far, I have review requests in for libindicator and dee. I need to do nux, and after libindicator goes in, the actual indicators. The remaining dependencies are a bit trickier."  
Surely, as always, there is room for improvement, but I found Laughlin to be the most stable and solid version of Fedora I've tried in years. "


The full article is available<ref>http://ostatic.com/blog/fedora-moving-to-unity-too</ref>
The full article is available<ref>http://www.itlure.com/2010/12/distro-hoppin-fedora-14.html</ref>.


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Revision as of 18:43, 14 December 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

Jackass IT: Stunts, idiocy, and hero hacks (Infoworld)

Heherson Pagcaliwagan forwarded[1] a posting on the Unity Desktop possibly coming to Fedora:

"Jackass IT stunt No. 1: Route city services through a laptop. Ever wonder whether you could route an entire city network through a laptop running Fedora? Take a seat. Or better yet, leave the chair for your laptop. You'll need to balance it somewhere to keep city services up and operational through a two-day snowstorm.

[snip]

After a feverish half-hour configuring the switch and setting up 802.1q trunking and routing on a Dell Latitude running Fedora Linux, the city network was back up and running, with all traffic routing through a single interface on the laptop balanced on a chair in the data center."

The full article is available[2].

Linux Format magazine article - Ubuntu vs. Fedora: Which is best? (Tech Radar)

Robyn Bergeron forwarded[1] a comparison of current Fedora and other linux distributions:

"The truth is that there is a distro for everyone. If you want some of the latest technologies, especially in terms of underlying system code, virtual machines and other of-themoment tech, Fedora is a good bet. If you want to have a friendlier desktop experience where your every whim is catered for, Ubuntu would be better for your needs.

And, while we're on the subject, if you want to run KDE, you are probably better off with OpenSUSE. There are certainly more than enough Linuxes to go around."

The full article is available[2]

IT Lure Distro Hoppin`: Fedora 14 (IT Lure)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a recent review of Fedora 14:

"While some users may be turned off by the lack of easy-to-reach proprietary drivers/codecs and the barren default software selection, most will appreciate the true qualities of this distro:

  • its focus on developing the community and trying to keep everyone active and contributing in some way or another;
  • giving users access to the latest and greatest apps in the open source world;
  • its commitment to freedom.

Surely, as always, there is room for improvement, but I found Laughlin to be the most stable and solid version of Fedora I've tried in years. "

The full article is available[2].