[Fedora-ambassadors-list] review of Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat May 20 08:58:33 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 23:38 +0200, Gerold Kassube wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> please excsue me/us that we'll send our report so late as it is :-(
> We're all very busy at the moment and the week we're missing in the job
> must also be catched up ...
>
> Please find the combined review of the people who wants to write some
> words and feel free to post these words!
>
> last but not least before you read the whole commits; I wanna say thank
> you all, you guys which helped Florian and me that the Linuxtag was such
> a good event for Fedora in in my role as a Fedora Ambassador.
> Special Thanks to Jens who was the whole time with me, Joerg who was
> every time at the booth and answered a lot of questions, Thorsten who
> has take care of his Sony Laptop .-) and not to forget Florian who has
> the most important role and work to do! And a very, very special thanks
> goes to the URZ of the University of Basel which was a big contributor
> for the booth :-)
>
> So enough from myself ...
>
>
>
> Review from Chitlesh Goorah (Kadischi / LiveCD)
> ===============================================
> Although the Fedora Project considered LinuxTag as a small event, this
> is a big event in Europe.
>
> A great event to meet great Fedora participants :)
>
> In accordance to the questions directed to me at the booth, I may say
> that there were quite some interest in the Fedora distro :)
I am pretty sure these questions were answered well but here is
hopefully more information that might be useful on future occasions.
>
> * How Fedora can be useful to disabled persons(eyes)? (thanks KDE for
> being useful here)
KDE and GNOME are settling down on AT-SPI based libraries and there is
potentially increase cross pollination between applications build on
them. It makes sense to highlight that.
> * Why Fedora Core (FC4 and FC5) default kernels have issues ? How about
> the testing behind it ?
Not sure what was the reference to FC4 kernel issue but FC5 GA kernel
definitely shows that core developers in Fedora do not test it actively
against non-free software. Others could potentially do that. If you got
better ways ideas talk to the Fedora QA lead about it.
> * Can I have a livecd of Fedora ?
Hopefully a formal release by FC6.
> * Why do my firefox have so much language packs as extensions which
> most of the time I don't need ?
Its a transient issue. We need to figure out a better way to do this.
> * Fedora is known to be providing ONLY gpl'ed packages why do aiglx and
> Fedora directory server respectively require proprietary drivers and Sun
> Java ?
AIGLX doesnt necessarily depend on any proprietary driver. Intel i810
works fine for example. Fedora directory server is a large piece of
formerly proprietary product that is still being "freed". With Red Hat's
long standing investments in GCJ it is one of the priorities. I am
hoping that Fedora directory server is less of a silo in the future than
it is currently.
> * In Fedora /sbin is not in the PATH for _su_ example ifconfig but as
> _su -_, /sbin is in the PATH? other distros like Mandriva and Suse it is
> not the case. Why?
I am not sure. I saw a discussion initiated by you in fedora-devel list
but I didnt see any concrete answers. Did you get any?
Rahul
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