[Ambassadors] Introduction

[Rahul Sundaram]

Luke Satin wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm new here too, so let me introduce myself:
> I'm a 19 years old software developer based Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Welcome.

> 
> I'm also a member of OSS Alliance organisation (www.oss.cz 
> <http://www.oss.cz>) - OSS provides
> open-source support mainly for the Czech government. It's goal is to 
> replace proprietary document formats
> such as MS Word with OpenDocument Format which has been approved as an 
> ISO norm recently. Replacing few
> proprietary desktop apps with opensource ones is the first step to Linux.
> 
> There is also a Czech Wiki page about Fedora Core project: 
> http://www.fedora.cz/
> 

This one is listed in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityWebsites.

> Besides that, I'm also project manager and lead developer of opensource 
> PHP5.1 WEB 2.0 framework http://sourceforge.net/projects/elitecore
> 

Doesnt seem to be in Fedora. Might submit it in Fedora Extras. Refer to 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras for detailed guidelines on this.

> I have many ideas about Fedora and how to improve desktop, should I post 
> it here too or somewhere to dev-mailing list?

If there are straight forward enhancement requests, file them against 
the appropriate components in http://bugzilla.redhat.com. If they are 
general developer ideas that require more discussion, post to 
fedora-devel list.


> I use GNOME, but users probably likes KDE more, because it's easier to 
> use. You can change everything in the Control Center and there's more 
> eye-candy effects than in GNOME, you can also customize toolbars more in 
> KDE.

We offer these and many more. So users have a choice.


> Fedora 5 has the biggest number of bugs, I've seen in Fedora. After the 
> first boot, I had to disable HWCursor in xorg.conf, disable ACPI to not 
> have any IRQ conflicts on NVIDIA based board (n-force chipset with 
> net,sound and video) - It wasn't hard, but it took a week or so and I 
> think that ordinary users doesn't even know what 'console' or 'terminal' 
> means.

Thats quite contrary to the usual feedback we have seen. For example, 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-June/msg00006.html. 

I myself have been using Fedora Core 5 for all my work exclusively. 
(Typing this in a FC5 system) and the release in my personal experience 
has been the best so far. Do others here have widely different ideas 
about this release?

Unfortunate that you have been running into bugs. Have you filed them in 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com?

Rahul