As a Fedora user since F8 and CentOS before that, I've been trying to wrap my head around the direction Fedora is taking. A good amount has just been trying to wrap my head around "what's going on" -- all the back and forth over the past few months has been anywhere from "a mouthful" to way over my head. Finding a wikipedia-style page explaining everything to me has not been straightforward, although I've only looked a bit. Having a kind of "easy button (TM)" that explains it all concisely and succinctly would be nice (or maybe I just need Captain Obvious' help. :) ) Realize that I'm a passive user, grateful for the free (beer and speech) OS that meets my needs. I appreciate the "general purpose OS" approach that Fedora has taken on over the past ten years. I'm also keenly aware that RHEL draws from Fedora, and that the "general purpose OS" part of Fedora is in order to attract a wide audience of developpers, sysadmins, etc. to the ecosystem so as to leverage their contributions, test out the base system and packages, and provide a real world test case for packages and what technical direction they need to go in and what kind of love and care they need. As in, I'm in the camp that uses Fedora as a quality product in its own right but knows that Fedora is basically a beta-test for RHEL, and I don't have a problem with that. >From what I have been able to let gel in my head is that Fedora is shifting toward three core products: Server, Cloud, and Workstation. Now here's what I'm currently trying to figure out: - Will the Workstation be a rough analogue of the current main desktop product, and be not all that unfamiliar? - Will I be able to blissfully continue on with my usage of future Fedora versions in a roughly "general purpose OS" way? I understand that custom installation of software from the repositories, and playing around with settings, etc. would of course be de rigueur, but then that's already the case for me and I consider myself rather comfortable and adept at this task. - Will the Fedora repository(ies) continue more or less as they are, acting as a wonderful source of fantastic and diverse software, and basically permit myself and others like myself to continue enjoying Fedora? - As a derivative point to consider, will the other spins continue to exist, according to their maintainers' whims, desires, abilities to continue, etc.? I want to continue using Fedora -- although this dramatic pronouncement supposes that I expect a dramatic change to Fedora is imminent, which I know is not the case. I don't care for Ubuntu, and not much interested in trying other distros since Fedora meets my needs fully and I'm rather comfortable with it. Thanks! -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
