On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 05:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > This article is based on a interview with Max Spevack. One interesting > trend is that this article and to a mixed extend the earlier distrowatch > review posted talks about improvements while also painting a picture of > struggle in growth. > > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3680951 > > "Red Hat, Spevack suggests, has shifted from being "Fedora's sponsor" to > being "Fedora's biggest customer," and Fedora from being a farm-team to > a community in its own right." > > " One of these benefits is Revisor, an initiative of the new Fedora > Unity sub-project developed independently of the official processes. > Taking advantage of the new openness, Revisor is a wizard that guides > users step-by-step through the building of "re-spins" or customized > variations of Fedora." > > "For the larger free software community, another benefit of Fedora's new > openness is Smolt, an opt-in hardware profiler that allows the project > to collect data about the equipment on which Fedora installs. Even > before the release of Fedora 7, Smolt has been ported to the openSUSE > distribution. Spevack anticipates the creation of a neutral website > where information gathered by Smolt is available for all distributions > that carry it." > > Rahul > > Ps: I couldn't find any information on smolt integration with OpenSUSE. > Does anyone have details? > Last I heard Max spoke to them at LinuxTag I read from his blog??? Confirm please. That was as far as what I've read about it. Cheers, Marc -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
