Fedora 14 Release Party – Review

Yesterday we had our second Fedora release party. This time the release party happened at FLOSSK’s hacklab in Prishtina, Kosovo.

Everything started at 17:00 will 12 people attending, unfortunately we had no projector for the presentation but we used one of the monitors for that Theres was no swag too because we couldn’t manage some tasks Anyway, everyone was happy. We had coffee and tea for attendees!

Ardian presented Fedora 14 and Fedora Project itself with Q&A in the end, than we had group chats and demos to each other.

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GNU/Linux!

RMS quote:

What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system:the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.