LWN articles on Fedora

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 10 06:01:41 UTC 2008


Hi

Looking back at 2007

http://lwn.net/Articles/262653/

"Fedora will come into its own as a free, community-oriented 
distribution" has, beyond any doubt, come true. The Fedora 7 release 
brought community developers in from the margins, and Fedora 8 
solidified the new process. The bulk of the packages in Fedora are now 
maintained by community developers. Red Hat's controlling hand, while 
still clearly present, is weaker than before. Fedora leader Max Spevack 
has presided over a crucial transformation of this important project; he 
will be moving on to other challenges early in 2008, but will be leaving 
behind a distribution in far better shape than the one he inherited a 
few years ago.

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Distributions 2007 review

http://lwn.net/Articles/262092/

"Fedora: Fedora made great strides in becoming true community 
distribution with the merger of Core and Extras. 2007 saw the release of 
both Fedora 7 and Fedora 8, both excellent desktops/workstations. Max 
Spevack led the project through the merger and announced his resignation 
at the end of the year. This week's DistroWatch had the comment that 
"despite all these positives, the distribution still fails to attract 
first-time Linux users who sometimes complain about the lack of a 
central configuration utility or the overly technical nature of the 
operating system." This led to a discussion on the Fedora Marketing 
list. There seems to be some agreement that Fedora does expect its users 
to be somewhat clueful, and that's the way we like it. "

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Insufficiently Free?

This one is primarily about the debate/flamewar between RMS and OpenBSD 
developers but mentions the nature of Free software distributions too.

http://lwn.net/Articles/262400/

"Many of us will be using distributions like Fedora or Debian which are 
strongly committed to the creation of free systems. The developers 
behind these distributions have gone to considerable trouble to be sure 
that everything which is part of their system is truly free software, 
even when, as has happened at times, the result has been trouble for 
users. These distributors have clearly advanced the cause of free 
software greatly through their efforts over many years. One might well 
wonder just why Mr. Stallman cannot bring himself to recommend the 
result of this work.

Rahul




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