On 12/27/2011 05:59 AM, Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 01:17 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Sorry for the sweeping generalizations, but:
Your last couple posts ar saying, in effect, "in Ubuntu, I used $METHOD
to accomplish $USER_TASK. How can Fedora replicate the $METHOD I used
in Ubuntu? "
Hi Pete,
You might run into some trouble, because the two distributions have
different $METHODS. There is an important distinction to be made
between the end goal (putting videos on a tablet) and the method used to
do it (installing Miro, for example.) I'm concerned that instead of
reviewing Fedora, you will end up reviewing your ability to turn Fedora
into Ubuntu. Your struggle with the apparently unneeded fedora-utils
and proprietary nvidia drivers are evidence of the kind of bias I hope
your writing doesn't include.
I totally understand and admit that coming for Ubuntu I have migrated
quite a lot of users from Windows to GNU/Linux. These are average users
who don't know much about computers and don't need to. So, I am looking
for ways how to help them and help me in using Fedora. I am trying to
avoid every possible scope for any flameware here as that's not the
goal. I am new to fedora and of course I will look at it from the point
I am familiar with.
I am learning every day. For example now I managed to make my dual
monitor work without installing Nvidia drivers.
I also understand that Fedora's audience may be different than the
Ubuntu's audience. This is an area where I am confused. I think Fedora
is targeted at more advanced users, so I will refrain from recommending
it to average users. I was under impression that may be due to recent
marketing on fedora home page the target audience changed. I have not
spoken with any Fedora guy for ages ever since I stopped working for the
LFY magazine.
----
Fedora is committed to using free software that isn't encumbered by
various copyrights/licenses.
This page may be useful in terms of understanding Fedora philosphy
regarding many of the things you are interested in.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items
Some of them are indeed handled by third party repositories such as
rpmfusion, atrpms and others.
I concur. Still Fedora 16 is too addictive to be not used. Especially
when readers want to try it and want to read more about it. My only
choice is to use it and find easy ways to do things on it. I never tried
'atrpms' will certainly try. Can you please point some more repos which
can be trusted. I am already using RPM fusion and Livna.
Best
Swapnil
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