On 03/06/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 22:47 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote: > On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The article comes from here. > > > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 > > > > "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On > > the one hand, it's hugely popular. If you need to be convinced of that, > > take a look at the number of people viewing the officially-sanctioned > > FedoraForum.org at any given time - as I write this, it's almost 7,000 > > people. Visit your local Barnes & Noble Booksellers (that's a big > > bookstore chain in the U.S.) and you'll see quite a few books about > > Fedora on the shelves. (This, by itself, is a big plus for Linux newbies > > — Fedora may be the best-documented distro available)." > > I'm not so sure if the following statement was necessary in conclusion > of this Fedora review. It just seems the author is recommending other > OS over Fedora. :( >
Is it possible we're not doing enough to make the reason for their not being proprietary software obvious enough? I think we've talked about this before...but obviously we're not or it would (or at least should) have been mentioned in that article! Jon
> "However, since the distro I blew off my spare partition in order to > install Fedora 7 was PCLinuxOS 2007, it's impossible not to compare > the two. PCLinuxOS definitely comes out the winner. Configuring > hardware on Fedora is more challenging than configuring hardware on > PCLinuxOS, which does most of it for you. PCLinuxOS doesn't require > the manual addition of third-party repositories in order to get > proprietary software; most of it is installed out of the box. In > short, PCLinuxOS is simply less time-consuming and less frustrating to > install and configure than Fedora." It goes with the standard of Fedora isn't good because it doesn't install propietary formats from the get-go. They seem to not read or understand that Fedora does not come with propietary software. Cheers, Marc -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
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