Thanks buddy...
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Danishka Navin wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Sri Lanka Linux community will be orgnizing workshop for Maldivian > > students association as per their request. > > I'm planning to show up the Fedora 9 New features and l10n as well. > > As most of our members prefer Ubuntu, I don't want to criticizes other > > bistros, but want to show the true advantages over F9. > > > > Date is yet to be fixd, so planning to introduce Fedora Live USB Self > > Service PC. ;-) > > > > Appreciate your points, suggestions and previous experience. > > > > A generic intro: > ---------------- > You can reuse and modify as necessary the intro presentation from > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture/Presentations > > Fedora is fully committed to Free and open source software and staying > close to upstream as much as possible. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream > > Fedora drives a lot of the upstream work shared by other distributions. > > Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions > > Security is a key focus area > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features > > Virtualization is another. Refer to virt-manager, libvirt etc. > > A open build system, koji, a unified repository along with livecd-creator, > pungi and revisors supports custom variants of Fedora that are called Fedora > spins very easily. Rebranding is supported via the generic-logos package. We > have a easy way to support persistence and creating a bootable USB key is > trivial. There are a large number of such spins - desktop (gnome), KDE, Xfce > live images, Electronics Lab, games and several upcoming ones. > > https://fedorahosted.org/transifex is a web service (completely Free > software) that understands different source code management systems and > presents a unified easy to use web interface and works towards committing > changes upstream and then inheriting those changes in Fedora. > > Fedora is well known for presenting a great look and feel including a > fresh new default theme every release. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork > > Fedora in a continuation of Red Hat Linux released first in November 3 > 1994. It is also the upstream for more than a hundred derivatives including > significant ones such as OLPC and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions > > A common misconception > ---------------------- > > This is a common misconception that you might want to clarify upfront: > > RPM format ~= DEB format > RPM tool ~= dpkg > Yum, apt-rpm, smart ~= apt > > RPM is not comparable to apt-get. It is comparable to dpkg. In fact, both > RPM and Apt-RPM upstreams are maintained by the same Fedora/Red Hat > developer. We have yum, apt-rpm(synaptic) and smart available in the Fedora > repository and they all support the same repomd metadata format. > > RPM supports many additional things including multi-lib (the ability to > install both 32-bit and 64-bit libs in parallel), file based dependencies > (though we don't use it much), triggers (which recently has been in the dpkg > fork in Ubuntu but not in Debian) and others. > > We choose yum over apt-rpm as the default because it was a good > replacement for up2date using the same language (python), ease of > development and also because apt-rpm upstream was dead as the time we had to > chose and didn't support features like multi-lib that was crucial to us. For > performance improvements, demonstrate the speed in Fedora 9. > > ---- > > Fedora 9 specific > ----------------- > > http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/5-reasons-why-youll-love-fedora-9/is a > pretty good intro. I would also definitely highlight FreeIPA better. > > Closing > ------- > > Fedora and Ubuntu share a lot of the same software due to Fedora's free > software and upstream friendly policy. In particular, Ubuntu has inherited > system-config-printer, virt-manager, PulseAudio etc from us and we have > recently inherited Upstart from Ubuntu. We have constantly learn from each > other and while many of the contributors understand this very well, users > still need to. > ---- > > Hope that helps. > yeah, why NOT :D what quick & good reply Waiting for more stuff from other Fedora geeks :) > > Rahul > > -- > Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list > -- Danishka Navin
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