Quick positive rant

[zylogz80]

Hey all,

Pretty new to Fedora here and Linux in general. I've been a Mac user for years and a Windows (and before that DOS) user for years before that. I made the decision to switch to Linux for a multitude of reasons and decided to adopt Fedora 10 as my OS. All I can say is "Wow!" I haven't had this much fun using a computer since my first Mac!

I have been able to do everything I want on a 100$ second hand machine with a measure of style and grace that I had not anticipated. Sure, it was a little work getting everything working the way I wanted but with that work came self satisfaction and pride. This computer feels more like "my computer" than any I have had in years.

I just wanted to pass along a kudos to the entire Fedora team and community. This is a real blast and it's awesome that my hobby is so much fun again. Thanks guys and gals and keep up the amazing work!

[Dan]

That kind of rant is always welcome on the forum!

Really glad you've made the switch and enjoyed it, and equally glad you came in to give the good words.

However, we're just a user supporting user forum, and I really think the guys and gals over at the fedora project could sure use to hear this, so please consider posting this over on the fedora site through the communications page.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate

Thanks again for the kind words, and we hope to keep you around awhile. <....>


Dan

[stickster]

This was a really nice gesture, thanks for the kind words zylogz80!

The fact that so many millions of people are using the code and other work that Fedora creates is a sign that some things definitely are going very well. But we know Fedora's not perfect (is anything ever?) and that there are improvements we all want to make for the next release and beyond. We'll keep working hard as a community to serve all the various members of our community fairly and well. And as always I want to remind everyone that all contributions, including -- maybe even especially! -- small ones are highly valued, and help build better free software for everyone.

My wife and two young children use Fedora daily (it's all we have here at home, probably unsurprisingly), so my family shares a lot in common with people here on the Fedora Forum. That commonality is what free software is all about -- sharing our experiences and using them to inform how we build software, better and faster.

Thanks for taking the time to talk about your experience and enjoy Fedora!

Paul

[glennzo]

Hi Paul. I'd like say thanks to the Fedora team also. I sincerely appreciate all that you guys do. Fedora 10 works well on three machines I have here at home, Fedora 9 on a 4th machine. There's a few hiccups now and again, but that's to be expected. We manage to work through them though. Fedora is a nice OS that I use daily, every day, to do whatever it is that I do with too many computers. A sincere thanks to you and the Fedora team.

[adrianx]

About 6 months ago, I got myself a new mobile phone (Nokia E51). I was a bit disappointed when I plugged it into my PC and it turned out to be little more than a "storage device". Unfortunately, I couldn't use it as a modem, but there was absolutely no way that I was going to install that other OS.

Fedora 10 came along and I really liked it (in spite of the initial dbus and NM problems), but my phone was still unsupported. Oh well, in an emergency, I could always access the Internet with my phone itself....

Last night, for some reason, I tried again..... and guess what, my phone was recognised by Network Manager! I was so happy to see "Auto Mobile Broadband (GSM) connection" that I actually went to the #fedora channel to announce it to whoever was interested! (Not many people were)

This is my rather long and roundabout way of saying thank you. You have made an already happy Fedora user even more happy. Just imagine, I'm able to plug my phone in with no additional software that I need to install (or even configuration in my case). It Just Worked™.

P.S. I always do full updates.