On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:56:56AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > want to make a difference with this new derived distribution we need to > have a target audience and optimize the experience for this audience > instead of the rather direction-less "catch-all-audiences" thing we've > been doing with Fedora so far. The problem I see with defining _a_ target audience is that it by nature, precludes other audiences. We have to have at least some part of the 'catch all audiences' thing going on, or we lose a segment of our userbase to other distros which cater to their needs. > So we need to define the target audience. And it's not necessarily bad, > people shouldn't be all "Oh, screw you desktop guys, I'm not part of the > target audience, I'll never use this thing"; I mean, even hard core > people like yourself, davej or notting still have laptops where this is > only a single OS installed and you'll probably never need any LVM or > RAID features. You've not seen my two disk RAID0 laptop ? :-) [yes, I'm serious] FWIW, it always bothered me that we use LVM everywhere. In hindsight I think it was a mistake. I can see why it would make ongoing maintainence of the installer simpler, but for a lot of cases, it's utterly needless. As wonderful as I'm sure resizing volumes is, I've *never* used it. Ever. Yet near every install I do uses lvm, for no damn reason at all (other than I'm too lazy to click 'custom partitioning') Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
