---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM Subject: Re: "Default" spin of Fedora To: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Basil Mohamed Gohar a écrit >> >> This is a bit of a challenge, because it seems that the official line for >> the target audience for Fedora is the "FOSS enthusiast", which might limit >> how "casual" we would expect our users to actually be. Paul emphasized that >> this doesn't mean we expect someone to be a kernel hacker, but I think the >> other extreme might also be excluded. > > So what? Rome was not built in one day. Fedora won't be grandma-ready > tomorrow, but there's no reason to make trying Fedora harder than it needs > to be. Otherwise we should just kill this fluffy web stuff and revert to > publishing some files on a raw ftp server somewhere. > > We don't want to follow Ubuntu and accept proprietary blobs or old software > versions just to appease impatient end-users. However that does not mean we > don't want to make the distribution as streamlined as possible within the > chosen Fedora parameters. Streamlined at what expense? Because removing all references to KDE et cetera will definitely be more streamlined. Simply label things clearly. If someone cannot handle reading a label and making a decision, they aren't going to have any better experience with Fedora. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
