[Fedora-marketing-list] FC6 Reviews

[Rahul Sundaram]

michael at phoronix.com wrote:
> An Ubuntu developer has posted a mini-review/rants about Fedora Core 6:
> http://mindwarp.net/?p=30 (seen it on Planet Ubuntu)
> 
> 

Ooo. Easy as pie. I have added these as comments but for our friendly 
marketing peers here, I present:

* Wireless - In Fedora, the policy is to try and stay close to upstream 
on most packages including the kernel and there is very strong support 
for Free software. If the card isnt supported in the upstream kernel or 
requires proprietary drivers or firmware without clean redistribution 
rights, Fedora wont support it out of the box. You can possibly look at 
third party repositories for that. Fedora Core 6 includes the ability to 
use Fedora Extras or custom repositories during installation so this is 
currently very simple. It can be even automated completely using kickstart.

* Graphics: Red Hat spearheaded the AIGLX development and it has merged 
into Xorg 7.1 that is included in Fedora Core 6. XGL is additional 
unnecessary overhead of a separate server and widely considered as a 
legacy hack.

* Resolution: This is potentially due to the switchover from Bitstream 
to Dejavu which appears to have exposed a fontconfig bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210491

* Bootup: Fedora has been using the quiet option and rhgb graphical 
bootup to hide kernel text by default in recent releases. See 
/etc/grub.conf if you want to disable that.

* Package Management: While Apt along with Synaptic and Smart is 
available in Fedora Extras it is not the default for various reasons 
described in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt

Hope that explains a few things.

Rahul