On Thu, 09/11/06, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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 When one does a review, usually people are expecting a well-researched objective view. I see nothing more than ignorance in that one. But Rahul do you think you comments can become a article in Redhat Magazine? I think we need to show a clearer message to the public. -- Leo -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
