Looking forward to Fedora 7 [LWN.net]

Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 11, 2007 11:24 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814)
In reply to: Looking forward to Fedora 7 by ewan
Parent article: Looking forward to Fedora 7

That is of course true.

I'm not personally that concerned about Ubuntu in regards to freedom. They seem to have a practical approach to things, similar to Linus Torvalds and I really like that. I'm not saying that I like binary drivers - not at all, my own laptop was bought with Intel graphics specifically because I try to avoid closed source drivers as much as possible.

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Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 11, 2007 13:39 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (2 responses)

well, yes, Ubuntu has a more practical, linus-like approach to Free
Software, as opposed to Red Hat/Fedora which is much more strict. i think
it's good there is a choice, as some ppl respect and prefer the Red-Hat
way of dealing with the problems - as opposed to hiding them from the user
by workarounds like automatic non-free codec download or even including
proprietary software.

and as KDE user, i'd love to see Fedora have a decent KDE, as it is really
quite terrible now...

Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 11, 2007 14:04 UTC (Thu) by jprenaud (guest, #24040) [Link]

Honestly, it is not that bad if you use the kde-redhat repository maintained by Rex Dieter. I came from Kubuntu on a laptop to FC6 on a desktop system with KDE chosen as the desktop at install and although Kubuntu offer all the system tools with QT widgets, the KDE desktop on Fedora works well for me.

Please voice your issues about the current state of the KDE desktop in FC6 + kde-redhat repo so that they have a chance to be considered for Fedora 7.

Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 11, 2007 14:15 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

Certainly - choice is great, it's one of the great things about open source software :)

"...as opposed to hiding them from the user by workarounds like automatic non-free codec download or even including proprietary software."

I don't think Ubuntu does that and from what I've read, they don't intend to do it that way either.