Talk:Fedora Linux/Archive 2008

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What's a "spin"?

I think a bit of clarification would be useful here. -- Stormwatch (talk) 05:41, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Under Fedora 7, Revisor should be mentioned as one of the tools used to create 'spins'. Stormwatch is right in that this needs clarity. Especially considering the availability of different spins in the future. --JRPritchard (talk) 21:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm assuming it may have been updated since the prior posts, but it looks pretty straight forward to me. But again, that's coming from a Fedora Core 4 user. (Edited, forgot I wasn't signed in.) Esox id^t 21:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Fedora 8

This section lists NetworkManager with the connotation that it is a new feature. However it has been around since at least the previous release if not before then. Is it turned on by default finally in this release? If that is the case, like Pulse Audio's reference, it should be stated as such. --JRPritchard (talk) 21:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I believe you are right, NetworkManager 0.6.5 was shipped with Fedora 7[1] and 0.7.0 was included with Fedora 8. I'm not sure since I haven't used those releases yet, but I'm planning on using Fedora (keep wanting to say core) 8 when I get a new hdd this friday.Esox id^t 21:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I think Fedora 8 was the first version to enabled NetworkManager by default. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 21:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Found this on the F7 distro notes "Extended Wireless network management. New 80211Mac (Devicescape) network stack and new wireless drivers. Network Manager is enabled by default in the Live images. Support for Intel 3945, rt2x00 and zd1211 based devices among others." According to the release notes it looks like it was enabled by default in 7.[2] As a caveat, that is only for the Live installs of F7. "The plan for Fedora 8 is to more deeply integrate Network Manager throughout the distribution and enable it by default in all instances."Esox id^t 21:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I can't actually remember if it was enabled by default in Fedora 7 (its a while now since I upgraded to F8). I suspect it would be enabled by default on the Live CDs as its a lot easier to use than configuring the network manually (especially in a Live environment). ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 22:48, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Fedora's Project Management?

The GA-approval suggests that community figures of importance such as Max Spevack and the new leader should be mentioned. There should probably be a discussion regarding how to incorporate this into the article probably linking in with "Fedora Project". --JRPritchard (talk) 21:58, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

"Last" two cores?

One section is labeled "Last Two Cores", although it is obvious at this point that there have been multiple releases after Cores 5 and 6. Is there something I'm missing or does there need to be a change made?ZappyGun (talk) 13:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6 were the last two releases to have the word "Core" in them. Fedora 7, 8 and 9 do not use the term "core" (although their packages are still abbreviated to fc{7,8,9) respectively). ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 13:44, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Look under the "Software repositories" section for a description. FC 1-6 was basically the core packages that were required for fedora to run. The core packages were only from Red Hat devs I believe, and the extras were from outside programmers who submitted them to a community that cleaned them up for use, if they needed to be. In 2007 Red Hat decided to allow community submitted packages into official releases. I also think that they allowed programmers outside of Red Hat to work on the kernal/official packages after FC6. Hence, they no longer needed to distinguish between the core and extra packages. I guess I might add a little to that section now. Esox id^t 18:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

CodecBuddy?

It's official name is Codeina (and this name appears in About Box). Maybe it's worth changing in this article.

The release notes (as cited in the article) call it CodecBuddy, but the pages on the Fedora Project refer to it as Codeina. Personally, I feel that more people will see it as the "Codec Buddy" rather than Codeina, so I'd be willing to leave it as it is. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 00:03, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I feel most users refer to it as "Bonzi Buddy", anyway, you can remove it and use normal gstreamer-plugins and gstreamer-ffmpeg plugins from Livna. 69.245.242.199 (talk) 15:52, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Release Date for Fedora 10

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule

Fedora 10 release has changed to 2008-11-18, and has the marker (GA). The oldid shows 2008-10-28 though. 66.168.19.135 (talk) 14:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out - I'll update the page now. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 18:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

ASPLinux link

Why was the link to a Russian wikipedia page of ASPLinux deleted? Artem-S-Tashkinov (talk) 14:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

It was removed because we shouldn't use external links within the main article body. If ASPLinux is notable enough, it should have its own Wikipedia page. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 08:29, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

It wasn't an external link per se - it was a link to a Russian wikipedia page. Artem-S-Tashkinov (talk) 20:34, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I think that is still technically classified as an external link. Considering this is the English Wikipedia, it is probably not appropriate to link to the Russian version as it won't help any non-Russian speakers. ~~ [Jam]^[talk] 21:23, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

FedoMATIX

Hey people, I just want to say I found FedoMATIX, something like Automatix, but for Fedora, I don't really know were to include it in the article, so I brought it here... SF007 (talk) 16:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe FedoMATIX qualifies for a stub? I don't see any reason to include FedoMATIX in the Fedora article. Abhishek ^Talk 16:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Fedora 10 screenshot

Hi guys, I took a screenshot of the Fedora 10 beta release, so I'm putting it in this page, but I'm unsure if I should. If there are any problems I'll take it down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alstoneo (talk • contribs) 15:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)