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Printer config goodness is sure to be welcome on install, but how can you not lead with mention of the GNU-w IP telephony or other innovations? Hopefully it's cos you don't wanna overhype that until there's a good install-base, altho another bet would be cos your heart isn't big enough and then you won't be able to pretend (like Plymouth, ext4) that it's new on Maverik?!? Why not "Has GNOME 2.30 and Revamped [tho not in pretty sense] Installer"? Start acknowledging the(se) distro's complementary roles and the benefits of competition, cos atm you look like childish mugs who can't give credit where credit is due - which means you may become FOSSils.
Trust we can expect to see you carp "One week later than scheduled" in the header next time Canonical rightly puts quality first. Class act - best wishes on graduating from 7th grade! ;p.

If the Fedora developers themselves can't find anything more exiting to brag about than exactly those features you imply that we 'hand picked,' well, maybe that's a sign. Have you actually read the release notes by the way? Oh, that's right, they haven't changed since the alpha.

And since Fedora 13 Beta failed to boot on the machine we tried to test it, there's wasn't that much for us to go with now was it? But no, the obvious reason is a great conspiracy against Fedora and any other distro out there orchestrated by our Ubuntu overlords...

I guarantee you that when Fedora 13 comes out it will get a thorough and as objective as it is humanly possible review. And I'll be sure to mention that it has GNOME 2.30 and a 'revamped installer.'

Fair enough - my apologies. It's just the contrast is so jarringly stark - my thinking was fanboi-s not "overlords", btw - but if that's simply a reflection of the respective publicity material & cultures coming through, I understand much more lucid-ly now.
Wondering if SIP Witch's absence there reflects it's non-GUI or awaiting FSF. Maybe I can hope it's also latent in the new LTS.
Thanks for the illuminating response - and I reckon I won't be the only one, tho also sorry to have troubled you.

There's no need to apologize. We're running Ubuntu on our machines here so we're bound to have more info on Ubuntu releases, we use them every day. And Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro out there, so that what most people want to read. But we never try to make a distro look bad or anything like that.

Ubuntu is great the more users the better. But I disagree that most readers want to hear just about Ubuntu. In fact people are starting to speak up about the over reliance on Ubuntu to represent all of Linux, thinking it may be misleading. We need more balance. If you have more that one pc maybe they shouldn't all be running the same distro. Like Windows 7, Fedora 12 (or Fedora 13 due in May) is leading edge Linux. Most Windows users buy the most current version. They don't buy an "easier" Windows Lite version. Those that don't want as many updates or don't need to be current can stay one version behind the latest version of Fedora. Fedora seems easier to use to me, especially when it comes to installing / updating software. I think you should spend equal time on Debian and RPM based distributions. (Mandriva, SUSE, Fedora, etc.) Linus Torvald uses Fedora so maybe a lot of people would like to read about it also. Fedora is the second most popular Linux-based operating system as of mid 2009, behind Ubuntu. But who cares about popularity, just give us more variety, that's what GNU/Linux is all about.
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Fedora users working together with Ubuntu-GNU/Linux users.

You can disagree if you like, but the Ubuntu beta announcement had 10 times more readers than the Fedora beta announcement. That speaks for itself. I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but it's fact.
I totally agree that we need more variety. Actually, Linux has plenty of variety, what we need is more 'quality' variety. Ubuntu is the best Linux distro out there at the moment, quality wise. It may not be the fastest, it may not be the most 'bleeding-edge,' but it's the one that does more things better than anyone else. I've used Fedora for a long time and it never had the polish of Ubuntu and it still doesn't. If Fedora 13 will, great. I'm not religious about Ubuntu, I'll switch the moment something better comes along.