Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 15:31:26 -0600, > Matthew Woehlke<> wrote: I'd ask you not to do that, but you've been quite clear you've no intention of listening. >> Ubuntu's method satisfies more users, that is why they use Ubuntu. >> People¹ use Fedora because it is leading edge. If we sacrifice that >> identity, then people¹ won't have any reason to use Fedora over Ubuntu. >> >> (¹not everyone, true, but we've shown that there /are/ such people) > > But are there more that use it because it is free or more ammeniable to > new contributors or perhaps other reasons? I'd expect people that want 100% Free to use gNewSense. I'm not sure how you define "more ammeniable to new contributors", so that's harder to address. Still, I think it's clear that at least some people use Fedora *because* it is leading (yes, almost bleeding) edge. And this is going to kill that. (Or will if it gets enforced.) Anyone know of a distro that doesn't lag like Ubuntu/NewFedora? Is Mandrake kept up to date, or do they also make you wait months for new versions? Because I am *seriously* considering switching right now... > There are plenty of ways to be adventerous in Fedora. I think the project can > more onus on the tinkerer types and provide a more usable Desktop for > everyone. If you want to tinker, there is rawhide Please. "Rawhide is => that way" is getting really, really old. > the branched prerelease > (a lot of the time), grabbing selective packages from either, You're suggesting cherry-picking from rawhide into release? Really? /me is ++incredulous > rebuilding > SRPMS locally and probably other ways. Thanks, but I /have/ heard of Gentoo. > What's better about this, is you can > can selectively tinker with what you are interested in, rather than having > to tinker with lots of things you might not be and at inopportune times. I can also choose not to install every update the moment it is released. -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- Time to get out the marshmallows... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel