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Joined: 4/23/2009
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| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 12 days
Posted: 5/14/2009 8:41:46 AM | How could Something Free Be So Good 
Did you know NASA Uses Fedora?
Roadrunner, the number one Supercomputer in the world also uses Fedora.
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Who's tried the beta, what do you think?
SOME NEW FEATURES:
*20 Second Startup/Faster Shutdown (#& I thought 10 shutdown fast)
*Better Security- DBusPolicy, DNS Security, System Security Services Daemon, SVirt Mandatory Access Control, etc..
*Minimal Platform - Enable small installations for a server or desktop appliance
*Virt Improved Console - improve the user experiance for virtual guests' graphical console, by providing an accurate mouse pointer and higher screen resolution, without requiring manual configuration
*Virt VNC Authentication -A mapping of SASL authentication into the VNC protocol for QEMU and GTK-VNC
*Xserver 1.6- Update the X server in to 1.6
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-http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
" What is Fedora?
Fedora is a Linux based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project, a partnership of free software community members from around the globe. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.
Our Mission
The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
The three elements of this mission are clear:
* The Fedora Project always tries to lead, not follow.
* The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread free/libre code and content.
* The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of many people throughout our community.
Our Core Values
The Fedora Project's core values, or Foundations, are set out on their own wiki page.
We strongly believe in the bedrock principles that created all the components of our operating system, and because of this we guarantee that Fedora will always be free for anybody, anywhere, to use, modify and distribute.
Our Community
Fedora is more than just software, though. It is a community of contributors from around the world who work with each other to advance the interests of the free culture movement. Everyone is invited to join, and no matter what your skills are, we have a place for you in our community! The Fedora community includes software engineers, artists, system administrators, web designers, writers, speakers, and translators -- all of whom will be happy to help you get started.
Our Method
Fedora is a center for innovation in free and open source software, and creates a community where contributors of all kinds -- developers, documenters, artists, system administrators, and other free software and open source enthusiasts -- come together to advance the ecosystem for the benefit of everybody. The Fedora community contributes everything it builds back to the free and open source world and continues to make advances of significance to the broader community, as evidenced by the regular and rapid incorporation of its features into other Linux distributions. Regardless of which Linux distribution you use, you are relying on code developed within the Fedora Project.
Who uses Fedora?
* Linus Torvalds, the creator and primary maintainer of Linux does
* NASA systems
* Roadrunner, the number one Supercomputer in the world
* Evo Smart Console gaming console
* Over a hundred Derived distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OLPC
* Even some robots do
* Millions of other users
Is Fedora for me?
* Do you want the latest stable software, produced and maintained by a growing community of FOSS contributors?
* Do you want a platform that features technologies that use or become the next generation of standards?
* Are you OK with moving your computer's OS a minimum of about once a year to use these technologies?
* Do you care about sustainable progress in software freedom and innovation?
* Are you interested in becoming part of a community of contribution and helping drive innovation in FOSS?
If the answer to any or all of these questions is "yes," you should consider Fedora for your Linux OS. We feature the latest in free and open source technologies, and much of this innovation is driven primarily by contributors in the Fedora Project. Because of our dedication to working continuously with upstream software communities, your involvement with Fedora -- whether to file a bug or to maintain part of the distribution -- is a direct help to all FOSS users worldwide, not promoting a single distribution at the cost of others. This is why the work done in Fedora is used in so many other Linux distributions. By the same token, we actively take an interest in all vital upstream projects to promote good engineering practices and a smooth user experience across distributions.
What makes Fedora different?
We try to always do the right thing, and provide only free and open source software. We will fight to protect and promote solutions that anyone can use and redistribute. With this in mind, all of our developers are focused on working closely with upstream, so everyone can benefit from our work and get access to our changes as soon as possible. Due to the huge amount of innovation that Fedora drives, this focus has had significant and long lasting effects. Some of the recent developments in free and open source software that Fedora has driven include:
* NetworkManager
* D-Bus
* PolicyKit
* PackageKit
* HAL
* FreeIPA
* SELinux
* PulseAudio
The reverse is also true: by sticking close to upstream development teams, Fedora often gets the latest software before anybody else. Not only does this benefit our community, but it also benefits the upstream teams by providing a much larger audience and more feedback for them.
Another striking difference of Fedora is our goal to empower others to pursue their vision of what a free operating system should be like. Fedora now forms the basis for derivative distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux , the One Laptop Per Child XO and Creative Commons' Live Content DVDs.
And that's not all. It is just as easy for individuals to create their own distribution, thanks to Fedora's easy remixing tools. These tools allow you to quickly select the packages you want, and create live images for CD/DVD or USB, or installation discs. Some official versions, or what we call "spins," of Fedora have grown up this way, including:
* Fedora Electronic Lab (installable Live DVD)
* Fedora Xfce Spin (installable Live CD)
* Fedora Games Spin (installable Live DVD)
How do I get Fedora?
Easy, just visit this page and download it. You can try it without installing anything on your computer, thanks to our Live images on CD or USB - in fact, you can even create a Live USB stick from within Windows !
If you have a slow internet connection, or no internet connection at all, then you can still get Fedora thanks to our volunteer Free Media program.
How do I join Fedora?
Like what you see and want to help out? That's easy too! This page has all the information you need, and don't forget that all our contributors get access to some awesome tools to help them get their work done:
* Fedora People provides free webspace for hosting Fedora related content
* Fedora Planet is an aggregation of contributor blogs so you can see what everyone is up to
* Fedora Hosted is the perfect location for hosting your free and open source projects
* Fedora's own Gobby server , so we can collaboratively work on documents in real time
* Fedora Build System to build your software across multiple architectures
* The skills and experience of hundreds of fellow Fedora contributors! "
-http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
Msg: 2 | |
| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 12 days
Posted: 5/14/2009 10:08:06 AM | LIVE USB CREATOR:
If you want Fedora but don't want to actually install it on your PC or lose Windows
Try the Live USB Creator: (for Windows & Linux)
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
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liveusb-creator
The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives.
Features
* Works in Windows and Linux!
* Completely non-destructive install. There is no need to deal with formatting or partitioning your USB key.
* Supports automatically downloading various Fedora releases, as well as Sugar on a Stick!
* Automatically detects all of your removable devices
* Persistent storage creation. This lets you to allocate extra space on your USB stick, allowing you to save files and make modifications to your live operating system that will persist after you reboot. This essentially lets you carry your own personalized Fedora with you at all times.
* SHA1 checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that you've downloaded the correct bits
Download:
Windows
* Windows executable: liveusb-creator-3.6.5.zip (11M)
Linux
# yum install liveusb-creator
*Also works with other Live Distros (Ubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE, etc) -Just use with a downloaded ISO | |
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| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 12 days
Posted: 5/19/2009 10:55:12 AM | >Leonidas
What a corny name. Seriously that's almost as bad as the Ubuntu names.
I hate to sound like a newb here, but I'm going to have a real hard time giving up that desktop bg (for F10). That's probably the best looking one they've put out. | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
Msg: 4 | |
| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 14 days
Posted: 5/19/2009 6:48:26 PM | I'm not diggin' those names either but I've been using FC11-beta and It does have a nice UI in comparison w/FC10 and the quiet boot/non-verbose is a lot nicer looking (in my opinion). And it is a much faster boot. I like it but have had a couple kernel failures since it is still a beta.
Fedora Wallpaper:
http://images.google.com/
keywords: fedora wallpaper | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
Msg: 6 | |
| MacOSX-Server
Posted: 5/20/2009 6:38:57 PM | | Pretty common, those unix based kernels work well for server oses. | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
Msg: 8 | |
| FEDORA 11
Posted: 5/24/2009 12:19:01 AM | I think they noticed that they could improve on the virtualization.
*Virt Improved Console - improve the user experiance for virtual guests' graphical console, by providing an accurate mouse pointer and higher screen resolution, without requiring manual configuration
*Virt VNC Authentication -A mapping of SASL authentication into the VNC protocol for QEMU and GTK-VNC
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Posted: 5/24/2009 3:46:50 AM | Ive been using redhat for 10 years now and I love it. I tried ubuntu for a while and it took less resources to run but it didnt give me as much freedom to do what I wanted so I went back to fedora. Im looking forward to 11, need something new to play with  | |
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| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 12 days
Posted: 5/25/2009 7:32:10 PM | | I came from using ubuntu way back. I did try 9.04 I didn't like it. I prefer Fedora anyday. The preview release is pretty stable so far. I was going to stick with 10 but 11 is so much faster I can't resist. | |
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| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 12 days
Posted: 7/7/2009 12:59:07 AM | Can Fedora run Internet Explorer?
Really random stupid question but i'm serious... I'm a partylite consultant who HATES windows... although my friend working for microsoft who COMPLETLY HATES vista actually upgraded to win 7 and loves it... but back to my main topic,
WIth partylite i can only log into my Http://my.partylite.com page from IE...
Which is why i had to switch back to Microsoft :( | |
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| FEDORA 11
Posted: 7/7/2009 2:34:54 AM |
Ive been using redhat for 10 years now and I love it. I tried ubuntu for a while and it took less resources to run but it didnt give me as much freedom to do what I wanted so I went back to fedora.
If you prefer RH , then you should have a look at CentOS , it is an unbranded RH distro and is an enterprise distro that gets directly incorporated into RH and it is very stable.
The latest CentOS release is ver 5.3
http://www.centos.org/
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| FEDORA 11 LEONDAS, Arriving in 12 days
Posted: 7/7/2009 3:14:43 AM |
Posted By: bmac69
Really random stupid question but i'm serious... I'm a partylite consultant who HATES windows... although my friend working for microsoft who COMPLETLY HATES vista actually upgraded to win 7 and loves it... but back to my main topic,
WIth partylite i can only log into my Http://my.partylite.com page from IE...
You should be OK , the web site requires FireFox 2.0 or higher , and most of the recent linux distros have FF 2 or higher. ( Fedora 11 has ver 3.5 )
Most Linux distros have other web browsers like Konqueror , Epiphany , Chrome and a few others that will probably be able to access the web site.
With word processing / spreadsheets/ ... etc , the linux equivalent is Open Office and you can save the documents in most Windows formats. | |
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