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| Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco | Pascal Calarco]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:jasonbrooks | Jason Brooks]] |
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| === Fedora 16 to have Grub2, GNOME 3.2 and KDE 4.7 (The H Online) === | | === The 5 most popular Linux distributions === |
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014021.html</ref> an article on some upcoming features in Fedora 16 from The H Online:
| | "...Fedora clearly has its fans. And, if you work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development, it's a really wise idea to keep a copy of Fedora on hand so you can see RHEL's future." |
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| "The feature list contains 40 items, including GNOME 3.2 and KDE Plasma
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| Workspaces 4.7. The developers are planning to switch to using Grub2 for
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| the boot loader. Having switched to systemd, as an alternative to
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| sysvinit and upstart, in Fedora 15, the project plans to replace further
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| sysv init scripts with systemd units in version 16. Furthermore, Fedora
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| is to offer everything that's required for Xen virtualisation, as
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| version 3.0 of the Linux kernel, which is now expected to be released on
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| Friday, will include all the necessary components."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-16-to-have-Grub2-GNOME-3-2-and-KDE-4-7-1283238.html</ref>. | |
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| === Google Web Fonts prove free fonts are flourishing (Linux Pro Magazine) ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014020.html</ref>:
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| "Historically, fonts have been a weak point in free software. There were
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| probably two reasons: first, programmers were mostly indifferent to
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| fonts, and, second, font designers were concerned about how their work
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| might be used. However, in the last five years, the problem has been
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| largely corrected, as a look at the Google Web Fonts page shows."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Google-Web-Fonts-prove-free-fonts-are-flourishing</ref>.
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| === National meet on Free Open Source Software (ExpressBuzz.com) ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014019.html</ref>:
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| "KOCHI: The Federal Institute of Science and Technology will organise a
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| two-day national conference on Free Open Source Software. The conference
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| organised by the Computer Science Department of FISAT and the FISAT Free
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| Software Cell will be held on FISAT campus on August 26 and 27.
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| In the two-day meet, Praseed Pai, author of ‘Slang For .net’, will speak
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| on Cross Platform Development. Shakti Kannan, Ambassador of Fedora,
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| Pune, and Ranjith Siji, Chief Technology Officer of Walking Ant
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| Technologies will speak on other sessions."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/national-meet-on-free-open-source-software/305564.html</ref>.
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| === Infographic sums up Linux then and now (Geek.com) ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014018.html</ref>:
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| "One of the most telling stats, based on information gathered from
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| LinuxCon registrations this year, is how the different distributions
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| have won or lost favor with users. Although Fedora used to hold nearly
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| half the market share (45%), it has now dropped firmly into second place
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| (28%) behind the growing popularity of Ubuntu (34%). One positive aspect
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| of this change is more distributions are getting users’ attention and
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| use, and Linux Mint has recently joined the more well-known and older
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| distros on the list."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/new-linux-foundation-infographic-sums-up-linux-then-and-now-20110817/</ref>.
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| === Feature preview of Fedora 16 installer ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014017.html</ref>:
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| "GPT, the GUID Partition Table, is an alternate disk partition table
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| scheme that solves two problems associated with the MBR (Master boot
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| Record) partition table. It allows the configuration of more than four
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| primary partitions, the maximum supported by MBR, and also supports disk
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| partitions of more than 2 TB. So GPT will be the default partition table
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| scheme on Fedora 16"
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/08/08/feature-preview-of-fedora-16-installer/</ref>.
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| === Fedora Postpones Switch To Btrfs; Fedora 17 Is Now The Target Release For The Switch ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014016.html</ref>:
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| "The Fedora developers have listened and have decided that Fedora 16
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| will not use Btrfs by default. The announcement was made by Josef Bacik,
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| Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat. Bacik, however, mentioned that
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| Btrfs is still being considered as the default filesystem for future
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| release of Fedora. The target release to have Btrfs by default has been
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| shifted to Fedora 17 now."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://digitizor.com/2011/08/10/fedora-16-no-btrfs/</ref>.
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| === Fedora 16 to skip btrfs by default (Network World) ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014015.html</ref>:
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| "I'm actually encouraged by the fact that btrfs is being delayed for
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| default for another release. It shows that the Fedora release process
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| and objectives are working well. Bacik has also displayed a great deal
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| of patience (as far as I've seen, anyway) with bug reports and
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| complaints while working to get it up to speed."
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| The full post is available<ref>https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/77452</ref>.
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| === Fedora not to switch to Btrfs in version 16 ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014014.html</ref>:
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| "Recently, it became apparent that Btrfs has not met the stipulated
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| criteria. The main reason for this continues to be the still ongoing
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| development of a decent program for testing and repairing Btrfs file
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| systems. Bacik had previously hoped that such a program would be
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| released in May; now, the developer has mentioned a time frame of "a few
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| weeks", but has also said that the developers' target is the Linux
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| Plumbers Conference, which will start on 7 September. The Fedora project
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| will probably make a second attempt to switch in Fedora 17."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-not-to-switch-to-Btrfs-in-version-16-1319827.html</ref>.
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| === Oracle, SUSE, Red Hat drive 70% of LibreOffice development (ZDNet.com) ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014013.html</ref>:
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| "Upon the release of LibreOffice 3.4.2, the Document Foundation
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| announced that Oracle and SUSE each contributes roughly 25 percent of
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| the latest commits, while Red Hat contributed another 20 percent.
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| Following Oracle’s donation of Openoffice to the Apache Foundation
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| earlier this year, The Document Foundation wants to reassure the
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| technology public that corporate support for LibreOffice is strong and
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| that this Office suite is “enterprise ready.”
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-suse-red-hat-drive-70-of-libreoffice-development/9324</ref>.
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| === Can GNOME 3 Become the Next Big Open Source Contender? (TheVarGuy.com)=== | | === Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts === |
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014012.html</ref>:
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| "There’s a lot to like about GNOME Shell in its current form. It’s | | "Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) and future releases — along with RHEL 7 and future CentOS releases — will be the best way to enjoy a vanilla Gnome 3 experience." |
| functional, graceful and arguably more intuitive than Canonical’s Unity,
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| which suffers, for instance, from the lack of any means for adding
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| virtual desktops other than editing gconf values by hand."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/08/02/can-gnome-3-become-the-next-big-open-source-ui-contender/</ref>. | | The full article is available <ref>http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/08/why-fedora-18-will-be-the-practical-choice-for-vanilla-enthusiasts/</ref>. |
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| === Praise for Fedora 15 and KDE 4.6.x - A great experience! === | | === Fedora 18 Linux Set To Package Spherical Cow Load of Features === |
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014011.html</ref>:
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| "Some old time Fedora users may be aware of Fedora's poor track record | | "The clock is starting to tick down on the Fedora Linux release with the feature freeze now in place. As such, now is as good a time as any to take a look at some of the new features that are likely to land when Fedora 18 goes live at the end of the year." |
| when it comes to KDE although things have been changing ever since the
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| release of KDE 4.x. I regularly try Fedora KDE and so far haven't been
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| fully convinced with the experience until now.
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| As a fan of both Fedora and KDE it gives me pleasure to say Fedora 15
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| with KDE 4.6.x is a great experience!"
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| The full post is available<ref>http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/07/praise-for-fedora-15-and-kde-46x-great.html</ref>. | |
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| === Living with Fedora – A Debian/Ubuntu User’s Take on Fedora 15 === | | === Fedora 18 schedule slips by a week === |
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014010.html</ref>:
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| "If I was to sum up my opinion on Fedora 15 in one sentence, it’d have
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| to be “Rough, but with great potential“. Gnome 3 is still a baby, and
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| Fedora took a bold step by pushing it to the forefront, and I applaud
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| them for that. As cozy as it may be, there’s still a whole lot of polish
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| left to be done. The front-end is still rough, and the back-end doesn’t
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| seem to have yet caught up with all the changes. If Fedora can manage to
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| take the successes in this release (which are many) and smooth out some
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| of those rough spots (which are also many), then Fedora 16 is likely to
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| pull a lot of users away from Ubuntu permanently. From the looks of it,
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| I’ll be one of them."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://maketecheasier.com/living-with-fedora-15/2011/07/21</ref>.
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| === Linux at 20, some personal memories ===
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| [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-August/014009.html</ref>:
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| "By this time, summer of 1991, we had both started posting to Usenet. In | | "At a go/no-go meeting of the Fedora QA Team, the developers decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha by a week. The team unanimously voted to not go forward with the release because of the relatively large number of blocker bugs that are still unresolved." |
| August, Linus mentioned his kernel project on comp.os.minix for the
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| first time. Later on, he decided to make the code available, and got one
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| of the admins of ftp.funet.fi to put it there. For this, the project | |
| needed a name. Linus wanted to call it Freax, but Ari Lemmke, the
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| ftp.funet.fi admin, decided to call it Linux instead. You can find the
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| Freax name in the Makefile of the earliest Linux releases."
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| The full post is available<ref>http://liw.fi/linux20/</ref>. | | The full article is available <ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-18-schedule-slips-by-a-week-1673640.html</ref>. |
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