fedora is the new ubuntu
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| In the last few months I have come into custody of a few new machines for
| work. I decided to install Fedora, first on my workstation (an 8-core
| monster) and then on the laptop (an all-Intel Thinkpad X61), for ideological
| and social reasons. It's like this: Fedora is the new Ubuntu.
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http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/04/07/fedora-is-the-new-ubuntu
And in defence of Ubuntu there's this quick breakdown:
25 Reasons to use Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows
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| I thought of collating some reasons which might make you think twice while
| buying another Windows PC.
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http://anuragbansal.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/25-reasons-to-use-ubuntu-instead-of-windows/
Recent:
Fedora 9 KDE Rawhide
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| The beta of Fedora 9 was released just short of two weeks ago, but the Fedora
| Project has released new Rawhide snapshots of Fedora in its live form. No
| installation DVDs are being made available due to bugs, but there are
| 2008-04-04 Rawhide snapshos for both the GNOME and KDE LiveCDs. The KDE spin
| is already upgraded against the just-released KDE 4.0.3 release, which most
| noticeably has KHTML, KWin, and Okular improvements. Here's a few screenshots
| from Fedora 9 Live KDE (2008-04-04 Rawhide).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_9_kde&num=1
Fedora 9 Alpha Preview
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| On this Super Tuesday here in the United States, Red Hat has this morning
| released the first and only alpha release for Fedora 9. This ninth Fedora
| release, which has been codenamed Sulphur, will ship in April and go
| head-to-head against Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron", but what features can one
| expect in this forthcoming release? Among the features being worked on are
| encrypted file-system support, updating the KDE spin to KDE 4.0, PackageKit
| integration, and switching to upstart initialization. In this article, we are
| taking a brief look at Fedora 9 Alpha and the features planned for Fedora 9.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=991&num=1
[Screenshots] Fedora 9 KDE Live Alpha
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| With Fedora living on the front-line of Linux technologies, Fedora 9 Sulphur
| will be shipping with KDE 4.0 as opposed to holding off until KDE 4.1 with
| Fedora 10. With the release of Fedora 9 Alpha this morning, we've taken both
| the GNOME and KDE versions for a test spin. While this alpha release is
| shipping with KDE 4.0.0, and Fedora 9 final release will likely ship with KDE
| 4.0.3, this desktop LiveCD had worked out fairly well in our initial usage
| tests. For your viewing pleasure we've included some screenshots of Fedora 9
| KDE Live Alpha.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=992&num=1
Fedora 9 Hits Beta
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| The first Beta for Red Hat's Fedora 9 (code named Sulfur) is now out. As
| expected it includes the latest and greatest in Linux technologies including
| new GNOME, KDE, Firefox and Linux kernel packages.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/03/fedora-9-hits-beta.html
Tracking Linux prereleases: OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora
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| We often hear from readers who want to track the development process of their
| favorite Linux distribution but don't know where to start. Budding Linux
| enthusiasts frequently ask how the release cycles work, what the version
| numbers mean, and what options are available for end-user testing prior to
| official releases. The answers to those questions differ depending on the
| distribution, but we are going to attempt to address those questions for
| Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE—three of the most prominent desktop Linux
| distributions. We will also provide a brief visual comparison of upcoming
| versions with screenshots of the prereleases.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/track-linux.ars
Curse Fedora everytime and everywhere, but still you will be using their
technologies in the future.
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| Today, while having a glance to my rss feeds, what do I find ?
| "Ubuntu Gets SELinux". I quickly flew over a few more words:
|
| "This is the result of the amazing work of the ubuntu-security and
| ubuntu-hardened teams."
|
| Ha, there is something wrong here !
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http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2008/03/curse-fedora-everytime-and-everwhere.html
Distros Don’t Drive Development
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| Lots of press and people focus on Linux distributions when they check out
| what happens in Linux land. This and that distro come in new releases and
| they offer this and that brand new feature. This is also true of the many
| linux podcasts. They give credit to distros for new things that pop up.
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http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2007/10/28/distros-dont-drive-development/
Fedora Developer Interview: KDE 4
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| KDE 4 is seen by many to be the next big step on the free software desktop,
| while others think releasing 4.0 in its current condition was misleading and
| a mistake. Either way, it's an innovative release and inline with Fedora's
| goal of providing the latest and greatest free software it is set to be the
| default KDE environment in the next major release of Fedora. We caught up
| with a few members of the KDE SIG to talk about the work they're doing to get
| it ready for release, their own opinions on the software and what they think
| about the progress made by Fedora in getting over its GNOME centric
| reputation.
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/KDE4
Fedora on the Final Frontier
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| There has been a long standing rumor regarding NASA running Fedora which all
| of us in the Fedora community have been always intrigued by. Is it true? What
| are they doing with it there? Why don't they run RHEL. Fortunately enough, a
| couple of weeks ago, I got to experience NASA behind the scenes, first hand,
| and hang out with the coolest members of the Fedora community, and find out
| the answer to these questions and lots more.
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http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2008/02/fedora-on-final-frontier.html
23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
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| Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing
| them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools
| cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful
| deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are
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| underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1163450117
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