On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:48:19AM +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/2/11 <laura@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Q1 will Fedora versions in the future offer > > something like Ubuntu, where as there is a "restricted" installed b > > default repo, to get codecs like playing a MP3 or movie, or > > Multimedia is already done - it's called Codeina - go read about it. > Wireless - sorted by using better open drivers (e.g. new Broadcom and > Atheros code) Actually, Codeina was dropped in favor of even better and vendor-neutral functionality in PackageKit. > > Q2, Will Fedora release a LTS (long term support) version that is > > supported for 3 years or so, just like Ubuntu. > > That's RHEL and/or CentOS and it's a heck of a lot longer than 3 years. It's 7 years actually. I run CentOS on a home server, and Fedora on my workstations. > > windows does it, ubuntu does it even for Q1 after accepting the warning, > > but Fedora won't. > > Your perceptions are wrong and you are not educating people correctly > for reasons above. Fedora doesn't seem to need saving as it's > community is just as vibrant and diverse as Ubuntu's - I follow both. Yes, any perception that somehow Fedora needs saving is plainly ignoring the explosive growth of our community, the advancement of technical features that we make available for *all* distributions (the open source way, you know), and the statistics we produce *openly and transparently* and publish on our wiki[1] (as opposed to making them up, and hoping everyone repeats them on our say-so). We have an incredibly vast and energetic community of which people who only use the distribution might not be fully aware. That's why we encourage people to get involved.[2] > (Disclaimer: RHEL licence holder, Fedora user, but this EEE PC 701 is > running an Ubuntu variant - so there =oP) Disclaimer: I use a @gmail.com address that I've had since GMail started, but I'm also a Red Hat employee. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics [2] http://join.fedoraproject.org/ -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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