[Fedora-marketing-list] Re: FC6 Reviews

[Leo]

On Thu, 09/11/06, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> michael at phoronix.com wrote:
>> An Ubuntu developer has posted a mini-review/rants about Fedora Core 6:
>> http://mindwarp.net/?p=30 (seen it on Planet Ubuntu)
>>
>>
>
> Ooo. Easy as pie. I have added these as comments but for our friendly
> marketing peers here, I present:
>
> * Wireless - In Fedora, the policy is to try and stay close to
> upstream on most packages including the kernel and there is very
> strong support for Free software. If the card isnt supported in the
> upstream kernel or requires proprietary drivers or firmware without
> clean redistribution rights, Fedora wont support it out of the
> box. You can possibly look at third party repositories for
> that. Fedora Core 6 includes the ability to use Fedora Extras or
> custom repositories during installation so this is currently very
> simple. It can be even automated completely using kickstart.
>
> * Graphics: Red Hat spearheaded the AIGLX development and it has
> merged into Xorg 7.1 that is included in Fedora Core 6. XGL is
> additional unnecessary overhead of a separate server and widely
> considered as a legacy hack.
>
> * Resolution: This is potentially due to the switchover from Bitstream
> to Dejavu which appears to have exposed a fontconfig bug.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210491
>
> * Bootup: Fedora has been using the quiet option and rhgb graphical
> bootup to hide kernel text by default in recent releases. See
> /etc/grub.conf if you want to disable that.
>
> * Package Management: While Apt along with Synaptic and Smart is
> available in Fedora Extras it is not the default for various reasons
> described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt
>
> Hope that explains a few things.
>
> Rahul

When one does a review, usually people are expecting a well-researched
objective view. I see nothing more than ignorance in that one.

But Rahul do you think you comments can become a article in Redhat
Magazine? I think we need to show a clearer message to the public.

-- 
Leo