> Well if you really really want.. you can do all of it :-> OK, I've had a shot at the top one but it might not be what you had in mind - it might not even be factually correct!! Have a look and let me know what you think, I can try and change it a bit if needs be, or maybe somebody else wants to take a shot? (Ughh I just added to the first paragraph and maybe broke it a little!! :S) As for the second one...well see below :) > > short article about why smolt matters Why Does Smolt matter? Free software developers only have a limited amount of time and cash, which makes developing software that runs on a wide variety of hardware a challenge. This is a challenge that free software developers have had impressive sucesses in up to this point, but in which they are by no means perfect: two of the most significant challenges they've faced is getting enough information about hardware, and communicating to end-users how well they're particular hardware combination will work with particular pieces of software; now, thanks to Smolt, developers can do even better. Developing free software makes use of the paradigm that enough eye balls will make any bug shallow; in the same way Smolt works on the paradigm that the more users who submit information about their hardware, the easier it will be to develop software that works well with a wide variety of different systems. Smolt also goes beyond just being beneficial to developers, potentially aiding the developement of a ubiquitous hardware database which would allow users to quickly determine how well their system will work with particular pieces of software. Obviously this relies on lots of people being able to submit information about their hardware, and this is where Smolt is particularly strong. In the case of Fedora, Smolt automatically gathers some information about the user's hardware during installation and asks whether they would like to share this with the Smolt database where developers will have access to their annonimised information. At this point all the user is required to do is agree, or not agree, to this and move forward in the first run wizard; everything else is autmoated by the system. Not only does this make it extremely easy for the user to contribute information about their machine, becoming part of the free software community, but it maintains their privacy by being an opt-in system. This is not something that is limited to Fedora: thanks to a responsive upstream other distributions are encouraged to work with us on this and make the best possible system for end-users, helping the benefits already described a reality. > > short article about registering (static ip) mirrors with mirrormanager > on a netblock so that default yum configs will pull your mirrors for > your clients (even dhcp clients as long as they are in the netblock). > If people who can do this do this instead of just editting the yum > configs on their clients, then I can continue to count them in the > mirrorlist maps. Hmm, I might need a bit of help with this one! If you could point me in the direction of where I can find out a bit more about what you've described I'd be happy to try and help again (that is if the last "help" from me doesn't put you off!) Jon -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
