Issues on Documentation.
by Satyajit Ranjeev
Hi all,
I picked up a Macbook Pro a few weeks ago. I had been using a compaq
laptop for about three years and have been using fedora from the
moment I bought it. So I had fairly become comfortable with the system
and installation did not seem to be a problem at all. Every thing
seemed to be fine. But now with the latest hardware, there seems to be
so much of problem.
Its been two and a half weeks since I bought the laptop. I have tried
installing the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Fedora 11 and the same on
Fedora 12. Updated each time and got the nvidia drivers detected and
the touchpad worked. But all these times I just could not decrease the
brightness. And the brightness was set so high that if I worked for
more than ten minutes I would end up with a head ache. I spent half my
time googling and looking for answers in forums.
I decided to try ubuntu. And their documentation was simply brilliant
and organized. I managed to get almost every thing working following
their instructions. Here is the link , have a look at it.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
At the same time I went through our web site on Macbooks : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraOnMactel
It is so much outdated.
I still have not figured it out and Im jumping around from Mac and
Ubuntu. I use Fedora a lot and am pretty comfortable with it. Imagine
the newbies and shifts from other distributions. I do know Ubuntu has
a big user base, but ours is growing. We don't have an official forum.
The fedora forums is a great place, and they are doing a brilliant
job, but is still not the official forum.
I do realize that the documentation group is doing a lot of work. But
is there a simple method where a normal person can feed his thoughts
and then the documentation people can put it into the docs because
many are not that keen in joining the Fedora Docs project but would
like to share their knowledge.
The best place for me to start would be to join the docs project and
help in any possible way I can. But is there something more I could
do? And Is there a way that where we could have users submit their
installation steps and solved problems so that it would be a
repository for others.
Regards,
Satyajit
14 years, 7 months
LinuxCon
by Kevin Higgins
A quote from the website --
'If you can't make it to LinuxCon this year, you can participate
remotely through our live video stream, including all presentation
slides in parallel. Keynotes are free'
http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/program-linuxcon.htm
The
2:00 PM - Roundtable - The Linux Kernel: Straight From the Source
The Linux kernel forms the heart of any Linux distribution. Instead of
hearing from vendors and packagers, in this session you can hear
directly from the lead maintainers of the Linux kernel on its past,
its present and where we go from here.
Was great hope you all can catch some of the live video streams..
This is through Linux Pro Magazine in conjunction with The Linux Foundation..
14 years, 7 months
Congratulations
by Paul W. Frields
Red Hat has announced its 2009 RHCE of the Year winners, and if you
look here, you'll see a very recognizable name:
http://bit.ly/g6Zto
Congratulations to all the winners, including our very own John Rose,
whose participation in Fedora is highlightedin the announcement.
John, thanks to all you continue to do for Fedora, and it's wonderful
to see your many achievements recognized with this award. I look
forward to seeing you in Chicago in a few weeks!
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14 years, 7 months
Re: [Ambassadors] F12 talking points are out!
by Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:34:47AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 09/17/2009 07:07 AM, Mel Chua wrote:
> > The F12 talking points have been released, and are ready for use (and
> > improvement!) Many thanks to Steven Moix, Paul Frields, and Jon Roberts
> > for their hard work.
>
> It seemed incomplete and I added a few more notes. I think, there is
> still more work to be done here. I will followup if I find time.
The talking points were discussed here on the list and in Marketing
meetings as needing to have impact for lay press. The additional
points you added either don't have that quality, in that they're not
easily summarized in a short sentence, or are not points on which a
speaker would want to concentrate. ABRT is a great feature, for
example, but you don't want to give informational points that
overemphasize crashes or other non-performance.
I can go through those one by one if needed here, but the idea should
not be to make this list longer, because then it is no longer a crisp
set of talking points; it's a substitute release overview. We do not
need to blur those lines or the document gets far less useful overall.
Just for point of reference, we froze the talking points list back in
August, after list and meeting conversation that happened throughout
July and August:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-August/msg0004...
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14 years, 7 months
Fedora Support
by Tareq Al Jurf
i've talked with many people in Saudi Arabia about fedorai even talked to
arab people in forums
i found a very big problem
that most of these people used fedora but left it because they couldn't do
something
for example
a Moroccan guy on a forum told me that he installed fedora but couldnt
install the video card
so he uninstalled it
so what i am saying is that we need a ticketing system for fedora problems
we can even create a group for support
and the idea that i have is if the issue can be handled easily by the person
from the support, we can help people using remote desktop
regards
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Tareq Al Jurf
Fedora Ambassador
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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14 years, 7 months
SFD 2009 - Stockholm Sweden
by Roger Sinel
We had a successful event, Fedora was represented by myself and a local
developer who is a actually a squid package maintainer for fedora.
All the CD's were distributed, and I had printed 100 Fedora flyer's that
were given out. Our volunteers had Fedora badges and stickers on there
clothing. The FOSS Lightning talks part of the day was a success but no
Fedora specific presentation. As I was the "master of ceremonies" for
the day, I mentioned Fedora on numerous occasions to the whole group of
28 people which was a mix of six different FOSS societies in Sweden.
So all in all a good day for Free Software and Fedora was represented
well I think.
Here are a few pics from the first part of the day in the middle of
town.
http://forum.softwarefreedomday.se/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=348
/Roger Sinel
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14 years, 7 months