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What's Fedora Up To? Ask the Project Leader

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-all-hats-are-red dept.

Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack offered himself up for this interview because, he said, "I look at stories like [your] posting Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise and many of the comments about Red Hat and Fedora seem very rooted in the world of several years ago, when the RHEL/Fedora split took place." This is a chance to clear the air, and get an up-to-date look at what Fedora is up to these days. So ask away; we'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Max and (hopefully) publish his answers later this week.

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  1. Re:MP3 Licensing by PhoenixK7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    They've actually answered your question in the FAQ: here. Basically it boils down to patents and licensing fees.

  2. Re:Well, if you really want to by ewl1217 · · Score: 2, Informative

    True, but Ubuntu has Mark Shuttleworth. Mark Shuttleworth brings two things to Ubuntu that most other distributions don't have: money and ambition. Just look at Ubuntu bug #1 - https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1.

  3. Re:Dependency hell by bamb8s · · Score: 2, Informative
    Perhaps (and I remain unconvinced) there's some aspect of evince that can make use of nautilus being present. But if so, I haven't seen it. I could well believe that nautilus could make use of evince, but not really the other way around. But assume for the sake of argument that it can use nautilus. That still isn't a reason to have it depend on it.

    I can see why evince depends on nautilus:

    $ rpm -ql evince |grep nautilus
    /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0/libevin ce-properties-page.so

    This is a case where packaging the extension in an evince sub-package (i.e. evince-nautilus) should be considered.