Luis Villa (luis@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >> but you haven't been talking about that - you've been talking about spit >> and polish which sounds more like integration - >> choose-your-own-adventure and integration seem fairly antithetical >> unless you have N teams for each adventure type doing the integration. > > Not necessarily antithetical. After all, anyone who uses the thing as > a base for their distro is going to want the base to be solid and > well-integrated. Taking that route probably would mean that desktop > polish is a lower priority than polishing the tools for making > derivatives, though. Sure, but right now the base is GNOME, KDE, XFCE, development, eclipse, etc., plus a server core. That's a *lot* of polish to be doing, unless you shrink the base. Also, it's entirely possible that you're polishing in different ways if you're doing the choose-your-own-adventure core (do you want firefox? epiphany+webkit? konq on GNOME?) vs a tightly coupled desktop. See the recent OnlyShowIn thread for examples. I suspect this is the path of least resistance, though - we're already doing it in one way or another now, and it doesn't require Fedora to scare up more resources. That being said, it's unlikely this is the way to drastic world domination, or attacking other operating system's buzz factor - after all, what end user wants to *build their own OS*? They just want something that works that lets them do what they want. Bill _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
