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=== Fedora Project is naming names ===
=== Ten years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ===


"The Fedora Project is still trying to clarify its process of naming major releases, a process that has been met with calls for revision within the Fedora community.
[[User:Wonderer|Henrik Heigl]] posted <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2012-May/014299.html</ref>:


"To address the problem, Fedora Advisory Board member Toshio Kuratomi is working to build a new naming process that will avoid some of the pitfalls of the most-recent naming concerns."
"[...]Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 was the first product in the RHEL line; it was released ten years ago, shortly after Red Hat Linux
(RHL) 7.3. One-and-a-half years later, RHL 7.3 died and was reborn in Fedora <http://fedoraproject.org/>, a community project founded and
sponsored by Red Hat that has provided the basis for RHEL ever since.[...]"


The full article is available <ref>http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/276036/fedora-project-naming-names</ref>.
The full article is available <ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ten-years-of-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-1577126.html</ref>.


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=== Fedora 17 beta review – Miraculously beefy ===
=== Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop ===


"The Fedora Project is preparing for the final release of Fedora 17 with the beta version of their cutting edge distribution. Dubbed Beefy Miracle, the release of the beta was delayed for three weeks while further testing and bug fixing was done to meet the stringent requirements set down by the team.
In a brief ZDNet review, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers faint praise for Fedora 17:


"This development version brings with it a number of new features and upgrades, all of them to show off the very latest, and upcoming, open source software."
"GNOME 3.2, which was Fedora 16’s desktop, was dreadful. You don’t have to trust me on that though, just ask Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder. He hated GNOME 3.2.


The full article is available <ref>http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/fedora-17-beta-review-miraculously-beefy/</ref>.
"That was then. This is now. Fedora 17, with the ungainly name Beefy Miracle-no I’m not making that up, that really is its name-is now in late beta and it’s much better than it was."
 
The full article is available <ref>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/fedora-17-gnome-34-return-to-a-useful-linux-desktop-review/10975</ref>.


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=== Fedora 18 Linux will be a Spherical Cow ===
=== Fedora 17 won't be released until 29 May ===
 
"The Fedora Project has pushed back the release of the Fedora 17 Linux distribution by a week, from 22 May to 29 May. The main reason is that
the project wants to take care of four bugs classified as blockers in the current release candidates; if possible, the developers will also use the extra time to fix a dozen other problems."
 
The full article is available <ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-17-won-t-be-released-until-29-May-1578843.html</ref>.
 
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"How do you follow-up a name like Beefy Miracle? (the name of the
=== Fedora 18 Approves Controversial Feature ===
upcoming Fedora 17 Linux release).


"With another Cow of course."
"At the FESCo meeting on Monday, aside from Fedora reaffirmining their commitment towards the GCC compiler, the FESCo members also approved
some new features for Fedora 18. One of the approved features [procps-ng] has already sparked the grievance of Lennart Poettering."


The full article is available <ref>http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/fedora-18-linux-will-be-a-spherical-cow.html</ref>.
The full article is available <ref>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEwMzQ</ref>.


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Revision as of 18:18, 19 May 2012

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: Jason Brooks

Ten years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Henrik Heigl posted [1]:

"[...]Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 was the first product in the RHEL line; it was released ten years ago, shortly after Red Hat Linux (RHL) 7.3. One-and-a-half years later, RHL 7.3 died and was reborn in Fedora <http://fedoraproject.org/>, a community project founded and sponsored by Red Hat that has provided the basis for RHEL ever since.[...]"

The full article is available [2].

Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop

In a brief ZDNet review, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers faint praise for Fedora 17:

"GNOME 3.2, which was Fedora 16’s desktop, was dreadful. You don’t have to trust me on that though, just ask Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder. He hated GNOME 3.2.

"That was then. This is now. Fedora 17, with the ungainly name Beefy Miracle-no I’m not making that up, that really is its name-is now in late beta and it’s much better than it was."

The full article is available [1].

Fedora 17 won't be released until 29 May

"The Fedora Project has pushed back the release of the Fedora 17 Linux distribution by a week, from 22 May to 29 May. The main reason is that the project wants to take care of four bugs classified as blockers in the current release candidates; if possible, the developers will also use the extra time to fix a dozen other problems."

The full article is available [1].

Fedora 18 Approves Controversial Feature

"At the FESCo meeting on Monday, aside from Fedora reaffirmining their commitment towards the GCC compiler, the FESCo members also approved some new features for Fedora 18. One of the approved features [procps-ng] has already sparked the grievance of Lennart Poettering."

The full article is available [1].