Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

[Jonathan Roberts]

On 03/06/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc at mwiriadi.id.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 22:47 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
> > On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc at mwiriadi.id.au> wrote:
> > > The article comes from here.
> > >
> > > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894
> > >
> > > "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On
> > > the one hand, it's hugely popular. If you need to be convinced of that,
> > > take a look at the number of people viewing the officially-sanctioned
> > > FedoraForum.org at any given time - as I write this, it's almost 7,000
> > > people. Visit your local Barnes & Noble Booksellers (that's a big
> > > bookstore chain in the U.S.) and you'll see quite a few books about
> > > Fedora on the shelves. (This, by itself, is a big plus for Linux newbies
> > > — Fedora may be the best-documented distro available)."
> >
> > I'm not so sure if the following statement was necessary in conclusion
> > of this Fedora review. It just seems the author is recommending other
> > OS over Fedora. :(
> >

Is it possible we're not doing enough to make the reason for their not
being proprietary software obvious enough? I think we've talked about
this before...but obviously we're not or it would (or at least should)
have been mentioned in that article!

Jon
> > "However, since the distro I blew off my spare partition in order to
> > install Fedora 7 was PCLinuxOS 2007, it's impossible not to compare
> > the two. PCLinuxOS definitely comes out the winner. Configuring
> > hardware on Fedora is more challenging than configuring hardware on
> > PCLinuxOS, which does most of it for you. PCLinuxOS doesn't require
> > the manual addition of third-party repositories in order to get
> > proprietary software; most of it is installed out of the box. In
> > short, PCLinuxOS is simply less time-consuming and less frustrating to
> > install and configure than Fedora."
>
>
> It goes with the standard of Fedora isn't good because it doesn't
> install propietary formats from the get-go.  They seem to not read or
> understand that Fedora does not come with propietary software.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
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