On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 16:34 -0400, Kara Schiltz wrote: > ITworld > 11.1.10 > > ITworld review: Fedora 14 is leading-edge Linux > If you want to live right on the cutting edge of what Linux can do, then > Fedora is the Linux distribution for you > By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols > > I like Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux distribution, a lot. But, let > me warn you right now, that it's not a Linux for beginners. That's not > to say that the newest version of Fedora, Fedora 14 Laughlin > <http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease>, is hard to use. It's not. > But, if you need a lot of handholding as you explore Linux, I think > you'll be better off with Ubuntu. > > [clip] > > On the other hand, there are some really neat, new features in Fedora > that do work well. I have to say though that they're going to be more > exiting for system administrators and developers than they are someone > just running Fedora at home. > > Easily the most important of these is the arrival of of Simple Protocol > for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE > <http://www.spice-space.org/>). This is a desktop presentation service > protocol, like Microsoft's RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Citrix's > ICA (Independent Computing Architecture), that you use to run > thin-client desktops. > > [clip] > > Fedora also includes a new interface: MeeGo > <http://www.itworld.com/meego>. This is the interface for the MeeGo > operating system, which is meant for netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices > (MID) and embedded devices. While not as well known or as mature as > Android <http://www.itworld.com/android>, MeeGo shows great promise. By > making it available on Fedora, developers can develop applications for > MeeGo. > > Another interesting feature is you need not run Fedora at own on your > own desktop or server. You can now run Fedora on the Amazon Elastic > Computing Cloud <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EC2> (EC2) service. > > Full post: > http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/126064/itworld-review-fedora-14-leading-edge-linux?page=0%2C0 Just before everyone piles on, I've already written a quite long comment on this review which makes clear that all the issues Steven identifies were well handled by QA/devel and are fixed in the final release (he seems to have reviewed a non-updated Beta install): http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/126064/itworld-review-fedora-14-leading-edge-linux#comment-62089 I also emailed him privately to offer some details on the QA process and offer to help him with information on bugs he encounters when researching future articles. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
