Ubuntu’s Brainstorm = Fedora 9?

Heh, how about that
I thought I’d have a quick look to see what suggestions have gone up on the Ubuntu brainstorm website already, and was pleased to see that a number of the most suggested items are either already features in Fedora or things that are actively being worked on for F9. For instance:

Provide a simple graphical interface to manage any network connection. I’m pretty sure most of the network connections mentioned (3G/GPRS data card, bluetooth phone, modem) are all planned for integration into Network Manager 0.7, which Dan Williams is currently working on.
Create a better hardware database. OK, not exactly but Smolt definitely has the potential to help build something like this and new features are being added all the time. Hopefully if this gets picked up we can see some inter-distro collaboration. Pretty sure Mike McGrath and others who work on Smolt would be more than happy for this to happen!
LiveUSB. Hmm… I’m pretty sure this was one of the major selling points of Fedora 7 and the livecd-tools package.
Delta (patch) based updates. Hey Presto! Ah OK, I couldn’t resist, but seriously, I hope Presto keeps making progress and will maybe be the default in F9 - would be super cool.

Basically, I just wanted to say a big congratulations to all the Fedora developers who are clearly doing a good job at working on what people actually want and need. I know I appreciate all your hard work every time I boot up my computer! Keep up the good work

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Published:: 2.29.08 / 12am

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Corey Burger 2.29.08 / 12am

Just a reality check:

1. We ship NM too, and thus will get 0.7, whenever Dan Williams actually gets around to releasing it (Fedora is currently shipping a prerelease)
2. Hardware DBs suck and are mostly useless. Ubuntu has had hwdb.ubuntu.com for a long time (since Hoary) but it is simply not a priority
3. Ubuntu has had a LiveCD since the 1st release and has had LiveUSB for a long time, you just need to do some hacking to get it too work. yes, a better interface would be good.
4. This has been discussed a great deal, but is a hard thing to implement. Check the debian-devel, ubuntu-devel and dpkg lists for discussion.

And reality is that ideas on these types of websites often lack full information (like the NM 0.7 stuff), as the proposer may not read Planet GNOME (or any other developer forum/mailing list/planet/etc.)

Corey Burger
Ubuntu Community Council

Richard Plana 2.29.08 / 3am

Now how about a Fedora Brainstorm? Perhaps we can return the favor to Ubuntu and let people voice out what they want that might coincidentally be on Ubuntu.

Livio 2.29.08 / 5am

It only means that Fedora is from technical point modern.

Marc Wiriadisastra 2.29.08 / 10am

Wow Fedora being technically modern. Is there another modern I’m missing?

loupgaroublond 2.29.08 / 2pm

We’ll have some better hardware databasing features going into smolt, complete with better cross distro development with SuSE actually. I’ll have some details about it on my blog when I get home.

troll 2.29.08 / 3pm

Well, Ubuntu folks fall often into the argumentum ad populum - the false logic that something being more popular means it is correct or better or whatever. Building a complete desktop environment shouldn’t be a democratic process with little silly voting buttons. Democracy leads into stalling of development and consensus. When you go that path all you get is average - the superb really new ideas get always chopped by the averaging process. Real development requires experts (usability, marketing, etc) and solid strategy. In my opinion Fedora has been good in those areas in the past.

Piku 2.29.08 / 6pm

Even though I’m using Ubuntu I think Fedora 9 will make me switch, I just love that Fedora now adds feature after feature. Can’t wait for the beta.

Jon 3.3.08 / 2pm

Hmm…I might be misunderstanding one or two of these comments but just to clarify: this post wasn’t a swipe at Ubuntu for not having features Fedora already has. It was simply to say well done to the Fedora developers who are clearly working on features that people care about. For Ubuntu to have features people care about too (which they do - obviously, it’s a damn popular distro) is also awesome and they’re doing a good job
Clearer? Maybe not!

LP 3.3.08 / 5pm

The popularity of Ubuntu may also have something to do with a thing called hype. I would generally call it a little bit overhyped… Congratulations to the Canonical marketing department.

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