Hi, Interesting question. If anyone wants to take a stab at it? Rahul
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- Subject: AskFedora: What is the enhanced usage model or user experience model for Fedora?
- From: James Scott Jr <skoona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:47:00 -0400
Folks, First thanks for the F9 release, it is a worthy member of the Fedora Family, as I have experienced it over the last 10 years. Questions: 1. How should I approach this new desktop experience you have planned for me? 2. Should I devise a user and system policy for permission and access, and implement it with each release? 3. How should I think about configuring machine to machine connections and services? 4. Give me some sense of the user and server experience model you are seeking to implement? I view this question/quandary somewhat like the specialized Fedora Spins... Only I'm a both a professional developer and serious hobbyist; what have you preplanned for my spin? I have three of my servers using F9, my main development desktop using F8, and my laptop on F9. My normal mode of operation is to setup my servers (dns/tftp/pxeboot/dhcp/apache/svn..., storage raid5/xfs-nfsv4, xen vms) as headless run-level 5 machines. I then xdmcp into them as needed or use a combination of ssh and nfsv4, to get work done. And of course I do all this from a dual-display Xorg desktop. Consider the difference between F6 and F9 releases. There have been many new and significant technologies added with little or no guidance as to how users should manage or compose their user experience. By that I mean, SELinux, PulseAudio, ConsoleKit, UpStart, PackageKit, PolicyKit, NetworkManager, PowerManager, and gnome-keyring REQUIRE a new way of thinking and managing the desktop and server environment. No longer can we just disable or uninstall something we don't want to be bothered with right now; i.e. 'yum remove gnome-keyring' will remove 119 packages including most of gnome and gdm. I have some behaviors (or bad habits), I consider my user experience model. That model is now encumbered - and to recover I need to re-invest time in learning and customizing the new xxxkits and other services to re-establish a high performance development environment. I view this question/quandary somewhat like the specialized Fedora Spins... Only I'm a both a professional developer and serious hobbyist. Finally, let me salute your efforts again. Fedora represent more than a significant repackaging of something else. It, for me, represents THE most current releases of leading edge software available, rolled into a immediately usable, consistent, coherent, and trust able distribution. I often find other distro's forcing software bundles like Ruby into their way of thinking; making it very hard to re-use community contributions because of the differences introduced by that distro from the openly available codeset. I note that I haven't been in RPM Jail sense FC6, (well maybe once or twice, caused by Compiz or ATI drivers). I'm not a newbie by any means, so give me some keys to get ahead of, or at least up to speed with this enhanced Fedora usage model. Regards, James Scott, Jr. Registered Linux User #270764 A.K.A. Skoona
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