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)
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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