Hi Colin! On 10/22/2009 09:36 AM, Colin Walters wrote: > 2009/10/21 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> 1) Fedora is a community that builds software, a set of projects on >> fedorahosted.org, a set of spins on spins.fedoraproject.org - it's >> basically a development platform for creating free & open source >> software and applying free & open source software towards solving >> specific problems. > > Sounds good. But next, we mention just one specific problem: > >> 2) Fedora is a desktop distribution. > > I really don't like elevating the desktop to this level. Fedora is an > *operating system*, which the desktop is built on. In short maybe, > "Fedora has a desktop", not "is". ... > I don't mean that on the get-fedora page, we start listing "minimal > Amazon EC2 image" or whatever right next to the desktop. But we > should be producing images for servers, we should be doing some kind > of tests on them (disk space as above, etc.), and they should be > linked somehow from the get-fedora page. > > This doesn't mean that we expect a lot of people to necessarily run > those specific images, and maybe Fedora should make its relationship > with some of its more prominent derived operating systems clear here, > and at least mention them. But we should also be clear that we expect > people to do development with us, and join the larger FOSS community > (including the server) through us. That's why I proposed that there be two Fedoras, though. The folks you of your concern would join through #1. Maybe it would be at fedoraproject.org, and the desktop would be at getfedora.org or fedoradesktop.org. We don't have to be a one-trick pony do we? ~m _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
