Introducing Fedora - First Draft

[Karsten Wade]

Sorry I haven't had a chance to look or reply; been a busy week so far
(some travel, etc.).  I'll take a look, hopefully have some time later
today.

Input from any others?  Speak up, friends. :)

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 01:06 -0400, Markus McLaughlin wrote:
> Chapter One 
> 
> 
> Introducing Fedora Core 6
> 
> 
> Welcome to a brand new Operating System that shines above all of the
> other Operating Systems available to choose from!  Thank you for
> choosing Fedora Core 6 to be your Operating System!  What is an
> Operating System, you ask?   Well, it is an interface for a collection
> of software all working together to bring you the information you need
> to run tasks.  Once you get past the Installation process, the GNOME
> desktop opens with a screen consisting of a menu bar on the top, empty
> space in the middle that can be used to display icons or graphics, and
> a task bar that shows which “window” is open.  With the KDE desktop,
> there is one “windows”-like menu-bar on the bottom.  Finally, with the
> Xfce desktop, it is arranged in a different manner than GNOME or KDE.
> This sounds complicated but all they describe is the screen you see
> every time Fedora Core runs.
> 
> 
> Here is a brief history of how it was developed.  Fedora Core began
> life as Red Hat Linux.  It was one of the "middle-aged" Linux
> distributions; 1.0 was released in November 3, 1994. It is not as old
> as Slackware, but certainly older than many other distributions. It
> was the first Linux distribution to use RPM as its packaging format,
> and over time has served as the starting point for several other
> distributions, such as the desktop-oriented Mandriva Linux (originally
> Red Hat Linux with KDE), Yellow Dog Linux (which started from Red Hat
> Linux with PowerPC support), and ASPLinux (Red Hat Linux with better
> non-Latin character support).  Since 2003, Red Hat has discontinued
> the Red Hat Linux line in favor of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> for enterprise environments and Fedora Core for the free version. Red
> Hat Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on April
> 30, 2004, although the Fedora Legacy project continues to publish
> updates.
> 
> 
> Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the
> community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The name
> derives from Red Hat's characteristic fedora used in its "Shadowman"
> logo. However, the Fedora community project had existed as a volunteer
> group providing extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution
> before Red Hat got involved as a direct sponsor.  Fedora aims to be a
> complete, general-purpose operating system containing only free and
> open source software. Fedora is designed to be easily installed and
> configured with a simple graphical installer and the 'system-config'
> suite of configuration tools. The installation system includes an
> option to use GNU GRUB, a boot loader, facilitating the use of Fedora
> in conjunction with another operating system. Packages and their
> dependencies can be easily downloaded and installed with the yum
> utility. New releases of Fedora come out every six to eight months.
> Fedora ships with GNOME and KDE, and spans 5 CDs or a single DVD.
> Network installations are available from a single small 6 MB boot.iso
> image. The installer supports installation via HTTP, FTP, and NFS, and
> remote installation progress can be monitored via VNC.
> 
> 
> The name Fedora Core distinguishes the main Fedora packages from those
> of the Fedora Extras project, which provides add-ons to Fedora Core.
> Fedora was derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution. The
> project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora
> Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red
> Hat Linux. Support for Fedora comes from the greater community
> (although Red Hat staff work on it, Red Hat does not provide official
> support for Fedora).  Fedora came about as a result of a new business
> strategy which Red Hat implemented late in 2003 - Red Hat now
> positions Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a business-oriented Linux
> distribution, and all official support is for that distribution. Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) releases are branched off Fedora Core,
> which has led some critics to observe that Fedora Core users are in
> effect beta testers for RHEL.
> 
> 
> In some ways, it is true that Fedora Core is a testbed for RHEL but it
> is a very good consumer Operating System in its own right.  The
> community develops and supports 90 percent of Fedora Core.  It is good
> to have a major sponsor such as Red Hat so Fedora will be around for a
> long long time.  You can trust Fedora to be YOUR Operating System!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This needs a lot of revision, please offer constructive criticism and
> good changes/additions to make it compatible with our efforts....
> Good Night from Hudson, MA....
> 
> 
> Mark McLaughlin
> 
> 
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