Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Jonathan Roberts
On 03/06/07, Thomas Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The article comes from here. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 Fedora 7, a.k.a. Moonshine, released on May 31, is an odd duck. On the one hand, it's hugely popular. If you need to

Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread John Babich
Just my two cents' worth ($0.02): There will always be people who will not like Fedora's position on leaving the encumbered bits out of the distribution. To quote from the article: Much of this can arguably be laid to rest at the feet of Fedora's decision to stay completely within the bounds

Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 03 juin 2007 à 14:06 +0300, John Babich a écrit : Just my two cents' worth ($0.02): There will always be people who will not like Fedora's position on leaving the encumbered bits out of the distribution. However we could spin it a lot better. Fedora does not propose proprietary

The NTFS specifics -- WAS: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J. Smith
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 23:38 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: In the second Big Point Against Fedora is this (mis)statement: Fedora doesn't even include support for read-only access to NTFS partitions. Uh, I thought we had that one resolved and did offer ro access to NTFS? Certainly put it into the

Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jonathan Roberts wrote: On 03/06/07, Thomas Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The article comes from here. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 Fedora 7, a.k.a. Moonshine, released on May 31, is an odd duck. On the one hand, it's hugely

Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J Smith
BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John Babich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:06:26 To:For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1

Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 03 juin 2007 à 10:19 -0400, Bryan J. Smith a écrit : On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 13:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: However we could spin it a lot better. Fedora does not propose proprietary software it can't provide user support for or Fedora protects its users from lawsuits sounds

Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-03 Thread Bryan J Smith
via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:29:49 To:For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use

Fedora 7 Moonshine: Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

2007-06-02 Thread Marc Wiriadisastra
The article comes from here. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894 Fedora 7, a.k.a. Moonshine, released on May 31, is an odd duck. On the one hand, it's hugely popular. If you need to be convinced of that, take a look at the number of people viewing the officially-sanctioned FedoraForum.org at