On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:43:43PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:27 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > 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. > > I don't think we should be too worried about losing a segment of our > user base". That is the beauty of the spin concept. You can have > kernel-hackers spin that is optimized for a different audience. > And the really big audiences are not part of our userbase at all yet, > anyway. Don't be so sure. Indirectly, there's at least one target audience where Fedora is wiping the floor with the competition :-) http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/89041.html I'm not sure what level of testing we'd need to do for that spin though. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
