Re: I asked Hacker News what developers want from a desktop, and this is what they said

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 01:56:35PM +0000, Alexander Bisogianis wrote:
>> Agreed, but this is a very recent development, Fedora 21 was the
>> first to provide editions, if I am not mistaken.
>
> That doesn't feel recent to me, but maybe I'm living on an accelerated
> timeframe. :)

Two years ago, plus a year of implementation (F-20 -> 21 was a year)
plus the planning prior... I personally don't call that recent either.

>> There should be a clear distinction between what the base OS is and
>> what the applications that run on top of it are. Not for technical
>> reasons so much, but for "branding" reasons mainly.
>
> We're actually working on that, too, wih the Modularity initiative. On
> the desktop side of things, the rough plan is to start shipping some
> "application modules" as flatpaks.
>
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