2008/5/2 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > [Quick notes] > > > > that Fedora drives, this has had significant and > > > long lasting effects. Some of the recent developments in free and open > > source software that Fedora has driven include: > > > > * NetworkManager > > * D-Bus > > * OpenJDK > > * FreeIPA > > * SELinux > > * PulseAudio > > > > We can't take much credit for OpenJDK. Sure Fedora has done IcedTea and to > be in distributions like Fedora out of the box was one of Sun's goals in > open sourcing it but 95% of the work has been done outside of Fedora. If you > want to pick a desktop components, there are several others like HAL, > PolicyKit, PackageKit etc you can highlight. OK - good point! It was a arbitrary list so we can definitely revise this :) > > > > > The reverse is also true: by sticking close to upstream development > > teams, Fedora gets the latest software before anybody else. > > > > Not always but usually. I'll be sure to revise my phrasing here... > > > . Some official versions of Fedora have grown up this > > > way, including: > > > > * Fedora XFCE Spin > > * Fedora Electronics Lab > > * Fedora Developers Spin > > * Fedora Games Spin > > * Fedora Hindi Spin > > > > It is now officially refered to as "Xfce" and not "XFCE" since the historic > acronym (Xforms) does not even apply anymore. Skip the last one and move > electronics lab as first. Oh, I quite liked the idea of showing that people are taking Fedora and making it local to themselves? > > > > > > * Fedora Hosted is the perfect location for hosting your project > > > > ... your free and open source projects. I wouldn't mind retaining most of > the references from > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview Agreed, it would definitely be useful to work in most of those links :) I'll wait until there's some more feedback and then take a crack at revising it with suggestions in mind. Thanks Rahul, Jon -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
