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]