michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
An Ubuntu developer has posted a mini-review/rants about Fedora Core 6:
http://mindwarp.net/?p=30 (seen it on Planet Ubuntu)
Ooo. Easy as pie. I have added these as comments but for our friendly
marketing peers here, I present:
* Wireless - In Fedora, the policy is to try and stay close to upstream
on most packages including the kernel and there is very strong support
for Free software. If the card isnt supported in the upstream kernel or
requires proprietary drivers or firmware without clean redistribution
rights, Fedora wont support it out of the box. You can possibly look at
third party repositories for that. Fedora Core 6 includes the ability to
use Fedora Extras or custom repositories during installation so this is
currently very simple. It can be even automated completely using kickstart.
* Graphics: Red Hat spearheaded the AIGLX development and it has merged
into Xorg 7.1 that is included in Fedora Core 6. XGL is additional
unnecessary overhead of a separate server and widely considered as a
legacy hack.
* Resolution: This is potentially due to the switchover from Bitstream
to Dejavu which appears to have exposed a fontconfig bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210491
* Bootup: Fedora has been using the quiet option and rhgb graphical
bootup to hide kernel text by default in recent releases. See
/etc/grub.conf if you want to disable that.
* Package Management: While Apt along with Synaptic and Smart is
available in Fedora Extras it is not the default for various reasons
described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt
Hope that explains a few things.
Rahul
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